223 in favor, 191 against. The US House of Representatives approves the inclusion of the resolution recognizing the Genocide on the agenda

223 in favor, 191 against. The US House of Representatives approved the inclusion of the resolution recognizing the Genocide on the agenda. The external relations and information department of the Armenian Genocide remembrance foundation provided an unofficial translation of the resolution to 'Armenpress'. The document titled 'Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide' states:

'Whereas the United States can take pride in recognizing and condemning the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as the Armenian Genocide, as well as in providing refuge for Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syrians, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians who survived the genocide for its historical past,

Whereas US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau organized and led protests by officials from many countries against what he described as a 'campaign directed at the extermination of a nation,' and on July 16, 1915, received instructions from US Secretary of State Robert Lansing that 'The Department approves of actions directed at the cessation of the Armenian persecutions,'

Whereas President Woodrow Wilson encouraged the formation of the Near East Relief organization, established by an act of Congress, which collected $116,000,000 (equivalent to more than $2,500,000,000 in 2019) from 1915 to 1930, and the Senate passed resolutions condemning these massacres,

Whereas Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term 'genocide' in 1944 and was at the forefront of the UN Convention on 'The Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,' cited the Armenian case as a notable example of genocide in the 20th century,

Whereas, as presented in the US Holocaust Museum, Adolf Hitler, when ordering his commanders to invade Poland in 1939 without any provocation, dismissed all objections by stating, 'Who speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?' thereby justifying the genocide of the Jews,

Whereas the United States officially recognized the Armenian Genocide through a written statement sent to the International Court of Justice concerning the 'Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide' by the US Government on May 28, 1951, through President Ronald Reagan's statement No. 4838 on April 22, 1981, and through two resolutions of both Houses of the US Congress on April 8, 1975, No. 148, and September 10, 1984, No. 247,

Whereas the 'Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act' of 2018 defines the prevention of atrocities as a national interest of the United States, and it is also affirmed that the United States' policy is to implement a strategy at the governmental level directed at identifying, preventing, and responding to potential atrocities through 'enhancing effective use of diplomatic responses and foreign assistance to support appropriate transitional justice measures, including holding perpetrators of past crimes accountable,'

Thus, recognizing the above, we affirm that it is the opinion of the House of Representatives that the policy of the United States is to: 1) commemorate the Armenian Genocide by officially recognizing and memorializing it, 2) reject any attempts by the government of the United States to engage in, include, or otherwise relate to the denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide, and 3) encourage education and public awareness regarding the facts of the Armenian Genocide, including the role of the United States in humanitarian assistance and the relationship between crimes currently being committed against humanity and the Armenian Genocide.'

The unofficial English translation of the resolution is provided by senior researcher of the Armenian Genocide remembrance foundation, PhD Robert Tatoyan.