Showing posts with label John Kerry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Kerry. Show all posts

21.4.14

Change in US Position on Genocide?

The US Ambassador to Armenia said on April 21 that he expected a change in the United States’ position on the Armenian Genocide, reported Tert.am.
Speaking at a conference organized by the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute, John Heffern said that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are expected to make “strong” statements.

2.3.13

Kerry Comes to Turkey With Rebuke of Its Leader Over Zionism Remark

Michael R. Gordon

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chastised Turkey’s prime minister on Friday, March 1 for recently calling Zionism a “crime against humanity,” a comment that could frustrate Mr. Kerry’s desire to see an improvement in estranged Turkish-Israeli relations.
When Mr. Kerry set off on Sunday on a nine-nation trip, his plan was to use his visit in Turkey to consult on trade, the crisis in Syria and other Middle East issues.
But on Wednesday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a United Nations forum in Vienna that the international community should consider Islamophobia a crime against humanity “like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism.”