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Friday, September 28, 2007

Foxman: US Congress can’t debate ‘genocide’

"Foxman: US Congress can’t debate ‘genocide’
The leader of a major US Jewish group that last month endorsed Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the late Otto-man Empire said on Wednesday that the US Cong-ress was not the right venue to discuss the issue. 'I believe this issue should not be debated at the US Congress or the French National Assembly,' Abraham Foxman, chairman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), told reporters after a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in New York. He also said he hoped Armenians would somehow respond to calls from Turkey to set up a joint commission of academics to investigate what happened in the past."

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