Speech #1060023333

I am a proud cosponsor of a resolution honoring the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide and calling for the United States to encourage the Republic of Turkey to acknowledge and commemorate the atrocity committed against the Armenian population by the Ottoman Empire. It is sad and frustrating that at the beginning of this century. Armenians were murdered en masse. and now at the end of the 20th century the same type of brutal killing of innocent people continues. Since 1988. the NagornoKarabakh conflict has costs thousands of lives and produced over 1.4 million refugees. Let me say. that as a member of the Congressional Armenian caucus. I will continue to work with my colleagues and with the ArmenianAmericans in my district.