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insurmountable obstacle to consideration of the possibility 
of Turkey’s accession to the Community’’; 
Whereas the European Parliament, in a resolution passed in 
November 2000 on Turkey’s progress toward accession to 
the European Union, called upon Turkey ‘‘to give fresh 
support to the Armenian minority, as an important part 
of Turkish society, in particular by public recognition of 
the genocide which that minority suffered before the es-
tablishment of the modern state of Turkey’’; 
Whereas the European Parliament passed a resolution in 
February 2002 reiterating its recognition of the Arme-
nian Genocide and noting ‘‘that the Turkish regime after 
the First World War had several of those responsible for 
the genocide severely punished’’; 
Whereas the European Parliament, in its December 2004 
parliamentary report on Turkey’s progress toward acces-
sion to the European Union, urged Turkey to ‘‘promote 
the process of reconciliation with the Armenian people by 
acknowledging the genocide’’ and called on the European 
Council and Commission to demand that Turkey ‘‘for-
mally acknowledge the historic reality’’ of the Genocide; 
Whereas the national parliaments of several members of the 
European Union and a number of other national par-
liaments have passed resolutions recognizing the Arme-
nian Genocide; 
Whereas in recent years there has been an increasing willing-
ness of Turkish academics, journalists, and others to 
openly discuss the Armenian Genocide, but this has often 
been met with hostility by the Government of the Repub-
lic of Turkey;
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Whereas a group of historians organized and scheduled an 
academic conference relating to the Armenian Genocide 
to take place starting June 1, 2005, at Bosporus Univer-
sity in Istanbul, but the Government of the Republic of 
Turkey successfully pressured the university to cancel the 
conference; and 
Whereas the Republic of Turkey’s acknowledgement of the 
actions of the Ottoman Government, including the ter-
rible tragedy of the Armenian Genocide, will herald a new 
chapter in the history of the region and usher in a new 
era of economic, social, and political progress: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) commemorates the victims of the Armenian 
Genocide of 1915–1923; 
(2) calls upon the President to commemorate 
the victims of the Armenian Genocide on behalf of 
the people and Government of the United States; 
(3) calls upon the Government of the Republic 
of Turkey to acknowledge the culpability of its pred-
ecessor state, the Ottoman Empire, for the Arme-
nian Genocide; 
(4) calls upon the Government of the Republic 
of Turkey to promote rapprochement with the Re-
public of Armenia and the Armenian people and re-
alize a just resolution;
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(5) supports the accession to the European 
Union of the Republic of Turkey if Turkey— 
(A) acknowledges the culpability of its 
predecessor state, the Ottoman Empire for the 
Armenian Genocide; 
(B) pursues rapprochement with the Re-
public of Armenia and the Armenian people; 
and 
(C) meets the other criteria for accession 
as determined by the European Union; 
(6) calls upon the European Union to look with 
favor upon any actions by the Government of the 
Republic of Turkey to acknowledge the culpability of 
its predecessor state, the Ottoman Empire, for the 
Armenian Genocide and engage in rapprochement 
with the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian 
people; 
(7) stands ready to assist the Republic of Tur-
key and the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian 
people in this process; and 
(8) calls upon the President, the Secretary of 
State, the European Union, and others to assist the 
Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Armenia 
and the Armenian people in this process. 
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