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Sen. Robert Menendez to Receive 2009 ANCA-ER Freedom Award at Third Annual Banquet
“It is well past time for American diplomacy to drop the euphemisms,
the wink-wink, nod-nod brand of foreign policy that overlooks heinous
atrocities committed around the world.”
—U.S. Senator Robert Menendez
NEW YORK—The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern Region will be honoring United States Senator Robert Menendez with its highest honor, the prestigious Freedom Award, at the Third Annual ANCA Eastern Region Banquet hosted by the Armenian Cultural Association of America on Sat., Oct. 3 at Espace in New York City.
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I highly commend ANCA to honor Sen. Robert Menendez to receive the ANCA-ER Freedom Award. Sen. Menendez has been a champion of speaking and acting out the truth about the Armenian Genocide and speaking on behalf of the self-determination of the Armenians in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karapakh. Sen. Menendez clearly knows the sad history of the 1.5 Million Armenians who were mercilessly slaughtered from 1915 thru 1923 by the hands of the then Ottoman Turkey headed by Talaat Pasha. He well knows that the Armenian Highlands belong to the heirs of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide that was stolen by Turkey until today. He also knows that the precious Armenian lands of Nagorno-Karapakh/Artsakh and Nakhichevan belonged to the Armenian people when Stalin in 1921 simply gave it away to Attaturk to please and appease him; even though those lands belonged to the Armenian people for thousands of years hence. Our men of arms also fought and won the war in Nagorno-Karapakh/Artsakh in 1991. But apart from his knowledge, Sen. Menendez is an advocate of truth and justice. My hat’s off to the humanity and the humility of Sen. Robert Menendez. His Freedom Award indeed will be well deserved.