It is official.
Obama- Biden ticket.
Here is what I wrote a couple of days ago in the thread below.
------
Aug 20 2008, 07:23 PM
Our “friends” in Ankara must be soiling in their vartiqs.
We hear that Sen. Obama will announce his running mate on Sunday. In the meantime the noise is that it will be Sen. Biden of Delaware
======.
http://hyeforum.com/...showtopic=17557
Please google using “Biden Armenian” as your keywords and see his record in the Armenian affairs, be it the AG, ambassador etc. There will be hundreds of hits including even from the furkish press.
What is ironic is that Sen. Biden is the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, while all the oppositions to Armenian issues has always come from the Foreign Department known as the State Department in the US.
------
Among the many google hits here is one that says a lot.
------
Biden co-sponsored acknowledging the Armenian Genocide of the early 1900s
WHEREAS the Armenian Genocide was conceived and carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, resulting in the deportation of nearly 2,000,000 Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women, and children were killed, and which succeeded in the elimination of more than 2,500-year presence of Armenians in their historic homeland;
WHEREAS, on May 24, 1915, the Allied Powers issued the joint statement of England, France, and Russia that explicitly charged, for the first time ever, another government of committing "a crime against humanity";
WHEREAS, despite the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the failure of the domestic and international authorities to punish those responsible for the Armenian Genocide is a reason why similar genocides have recurred and may recur in the future, and that a just resolution will help prevent future genocides:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Senate calls on the President, in the President's annual message commemorating the Armenian Genocide, to accurately characterize the systematic annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians as genocide and to recall the proud history of US intervention in opposition to the Armenian Genocide.
Sen. DURBIN: The definition of "genocide" is "the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group." Scholars agree that what the Armenian people suffered in 1915 to 1917 fits the definition of genocide. To date, 19 countries and 37 US states recognize the Armenian Genocide. Genocide is wrong. It is evil. It is evil whether its victims are Armenians, Sudanese, Rwandan Tutsis, Cambodians or European Jews. Not to acknowledge genocide for what it is denigrates the memory of its victims. Recognition of genocide is part of the healing process. Official recognition will reaffirm our tradition of protecting the vulnerable and inspire us to not stand by and watch as genocide occurs in our time.
Source: Armenian Genocide Resolution (S.RES.106/H.RES.106) 2007-SR106 on Mar 14, 2007
Edited by Arpa, 23 August 2008 - 05:29 PM.