'Our focus is on ensuring that we continue to make progress on an issue that has, for almost 100 years.'
The White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs answered journalists’ questions at the daily briefing, March 4 before the genocide Resolution hearing in the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Asked why White House asked to put off the vote, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs replied: 'Well, I would have you talk to State about the specific conversation that she had with members of Congress. The President talked to the President of Turkey yesterday. When we traveled there last year, the President on that trip was working on bringing about the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia.
Progress has been made and they’ve announced the idea of that normalization. Protocols to normalize that relationship have to go through the Turkish parliament. Our focus is on moving that through, because as the President told these two countries, it’s in their best interest to move forward,' White House website reads.
In response to the question whether the US President afraid that this would derail it in some fashion, the US official said: 'Our focus is on ensuring that we continue to make progress on an issue that has, for almost 100 years, divided two countries. Through some very tough diplomatic work by Secretary Clinton, we’ve made progress to the point of – we’re on the cusp of normalization. And I think the President believes that passage of these protocols in the Turkish Parliament will make it that much easier,”'the source says.
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