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ReutersU.S. sponsors postpone push for Armenian genocide billThu Oct 25, 2007 9:46pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Backers of a resolution to
formally name the 1915 massacre of Armenians by
Ottoman Turks a genocide said on Thursday they
would postpone efforts to bring it to a vote in the
U.S. House of Representatives.
The sponsors conveyed their decision in a letter to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after support for the
controversial resolution support faltered in the face
of vehement protests from NATO ally Turkey.
But the four chief co-sponsors who wrote the letter
did not totally give up on the proposal, which
Armenian-Americans have sought to pass in the
House for years but is strongly opposed by the
Bush administration.
The sponsors asked Pelosi not to schedule a vote
"at this time," but said they would continue to work
for "consideration sometime later this year, or
in 2008."
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