IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, US CONGRESSMAN CONSIDERS

PanARMENIAN.Net - Representative James Langevin, a well-known champion of Armenian issues, is urging President Bush to follow the example of other leading US public officials and formally recognize the Armenian Genocide in his statement of remembrance next month, the Armenian Assembly of America reported. Langevin, in a statement issued yesterday to Congress, urged Bush to properly label the atrocities as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans so candidly did during his meetings with Armenian-Americans throughout the U.S. last month. During those public exchanges, Evans declared that "the Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century." "Therefore, it is critically important that the United States speak with one voice in condemning the horrors committed against the Armenians," he concluded. In other news, Langevin this week signed his support to a congressional letter to President Bush, asking that he acknowledge this crime against humanity.