"It is time to go back."
Turkey's ambassador to the United States headed back to his post Tuesday, a month after he was recalled when a House panel voted a bill branding the World War I massacres of Armenians as “genocide.”
"The message we wanted to give has been understood... and we are satisfied," Ambassador Namık Tan said at the airport. "It is time for me to go back."
Last week, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed "positive developments" in efforts to end the spat and said he himself would go to Washington to attend a nuclear security summit on April 12-13.
Ankara recalled Tan on March 4 after the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to ensure that US foreign policy reflects an understanding of the "genocide."
Warning of a showdown between the two NATO allies, Ankara urged Washington to stop the bill from advancing to a vote at the full House. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had urged the committee not to hold the vote and said after its approval that "we do not believe the full Congress will or should act on that resolution."
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