In a development hailed by Armenian-American lobby groups, a pro-Armenian congressman has been named to become the next chairman of a key committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Ed Royce, the Republican co-chair of the 135-member Congressional Armenian Caucus, will take over the House Foreign Affairs Committee starting from next January.
Royce is known as a strong supporter of congressional draft resolutions recognizing the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey as genocide. He has co-sponsored several such bills. None of them was adopted by the full House.
Royce, whose California constituency has many ethnic Armenian voters, was one of the main authors of a December 2011 House resolution that urged Turkey to return Armenian and other Christian worship sites to their "rightful owners." He was also among those U.S. lawmakers who praised a presidential election held in Nagorno-Karabakh this summer.
Armenian News
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