AHEPA - ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

AHEPA Applauds House Committee's
Passage of Armenian Genocide Resolution

WASHINGTON - Nicholas A. Karacostas, supreme president of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), a leading association for the nation's three million American citizens of Greek heritage, and countless Philhellenes, issued the following statement on yesterday's passage of H.Res.252, the Armenian Genocide Resolution, by the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs:
"We applaud the passage of H.Res.252, the Armenian Genocide Resolution, by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. We commend the committee and its chairman, Congressman Howard Berman, for taking up the measure despite last-minute requests by the Obama administration to not do so. The measure passed with bipartisan support.
"We are morally responsible to acknowledge and confront genocide whenever and wherever it occurs. As Ahepans, it is in accordance with our Order's mission. Indifference or inaction is not the answer."
H.Res.252 passed by a vote of 23 to 22.