CENTRAL NEWS
The US Senate has recognised the killing of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman forces during World War I as a genocide, in a move that will likely inflame tensions between the US and Turkey.
Senators voted unanimously in favour of a resolution on Wednesday.
The bill expresses “the sense of the Senate that it is the policy of the United States to commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance.”
“We have just passed the Armenian genocide recognition resolution,” Senator Bob Menendez who proposed the bill said after the vote.
“And it is fitting and appropriate that the Senate stands on the right side of history in doing so. It commemorates the truth of the Armenian genocide.”
Over the past few weeks, legislators from Donald Trump’s Republican Party had blocked the measure in attempts to give the White House time to negotiate outstanding issues with Turkey, including the Turkish occupation operation in Rojava and northern Syria.
