ArmInfo. The campaign, launched by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and strongly supported by key partners in the US Congress, resulted in the decision of the Librarian of Congress, Dr. will be held under the heading "Armenian Genocide".
According to the Armenian National Committee of America, ANCA Executive Director Aram Hambaryan noted that this issue is long overdue and welcomed the fact that the Library of Congress made this decision at an important moment for Americans of Armenian descent.
"Today we see the painful factual consequences of the fact that American leaders allowed Turkey to intimidate our country and silence it for a hundred years about the Armenian Genocide. Even today, when Ankara and Baku openly seek to complete the destruction of the Armenian homeland, our government is still too he is afraid to tell the truth to Erdogan and Aliyev. This must be stopped, "Ambaryan said. The leaders of the Congress also welcomed the decision of the Library of Congress to change the thematic heading "Massacre of Armenians" and properly characterize the Armenian Genocide.
Bipartisan letters to the Library of Congress calling for these changes were initiated in the US House of Representatives by Adam Schiff, Gus Bilirakis, Dina Titus, Frank Pallone and Jackie Speyer, and in the Senate by Bob Menendez.
In a letter to Dr. Hayden on December 4, 2019, ANCA recommended changing the terminology for the subject heading of the Library of Congress from "Armenian Massacre of 1915-1923" to "Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923". Following the almost unanimous adoption of resolution 296 (405-11) by the House of Representatives of the United States on October 29 last year on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the Senate adopted a similar resolution S.Res. 150 (100-0) on December 12.