Rice was begging Pelosi not to bring so called Armenian genocide resolution to Congress vote, Tert.am reported.
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has written in a book how she was literally begging the then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to bring so called Armenian 'genocide' resolution to the full House floor.
In her book titled No Higher Honor and to be published soon, Rice writes that US’ diplomatic relations with Turkey were threatened as the Turks were angry over the "genocide" resolution in the Senate.
“No one denies those tragic events. But that is an issue for historians to deal with, not politicians … And exactly when the tension on the Turkish-Iraqi border had reached its climax, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Senate’s House of Representative adopted that resolution,” Rice is quoted as writing in some excerpts that have already been published in the media.
“I was begging the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi not to bring that resolution to a full Congress vote. But Pelosi told me ‘I cannot do anything’,” Rice writes in her book.
Further, she says that together with the then Defense Secretary Robert gates they told the press that the US administration is against that resolution.
“We promised the Turks to overthrow that resolution in the Congress by all means, and eventually we succeeded in preventing that process,” Rice added.
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