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The U.S. Firm of Representatives to vote on Res calling upon Turkey to return stolen Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, and Syriac church properties

xi:29, 13 December, 2011

Erevan, DECEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS:

The U.S. Firm of Representatives is set to vote on Tuesday, December 13th on H.Res.306, a religious freedom mensurate that calls upon Turkey to return stolen Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, and Syriac church properties, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

This religious liberty measure, which was adopted 43 to 1 on July 20th of this yr by the Foreign Affairs Committee, was introduced by Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) and Howard Berman (D-CA). It has been scheduled for a flooring vote by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) under a special parliamentary procedure known as the Suspension Agenda. The text of the resolution that is prepare to come up before the House will be the aforementioned as the abridged version adopted at the committee level.

"The bipartisan consensus and cooperation we are seeing in support of pressing Turkey to return stolen Christian backdrop within its nowadays-day borders both reflects and also reinforces America'due south enduring commitment to religious liberty, as and so powerfully reaffirmed in the enactment by Congress of the International Religious Freedom Act, and then enduringly represented on the international stage by America'due south leadership in supporting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA. "We encourage supporters of religious liberty - of all faiths - to contact their legislators in support of H.Res.306, and call on all members of the U.S. Business firm to bandage their votes for this principled stand for freedom of faith."

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