US House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.252) with a difference of one vote.
During a 1,5-hour discussion 23 congressmen voted for the Resolution and 22 against it.
Recall that U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted resolutions with similar contents in 2000, 2005 and 2007 but they were not pushed for a final vote in the House of Representatives due to the painstaking efforts of the White House.
Ahead of the discussion of the Resolution, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the Committee's Chairman, Democratic Rep. Howard Berman to suppress the vote arguing that it would jeopardize the normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey.
