US PRESIDENT DID NOT TAKE PROPER MEASURES TO PREVENT PASSAGE OF ARMENIAN RESOLUTION, TURKISH PM THINKS

PanARMENIAN.Net - 16.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit stated to journalist that the U.S. President Bill Clinton and some leading high ranking commanders of the country did not exert required efforts to prevent the passage of the Armenian resolution by the House.

At the same time the Turkish Milliyet said that during the meeting with the Turkish deputies the President Ahmet Necdet Sezer informed the deputies about his telephone talk with the U.S. President Bill Clinton. Sezer noted that Clinton is sincere in his wish of rejecting the resolution on the Armenian Genocide by the U.S. full House. Sezer said Clinton told him that the U.S. President has not been influential in the election atmosphere this year.

The voting of the House on the Armenian Resolution with he call upon the US President to qualify the mass annihilation of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923 as Genocide, will be held October 17. --0--