Clinton said, "we have made that clear to all parties involved", while responding to a question on voting of the resolution on Armenian allegations in the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.
When a journalist said, "before entering the Administration, both you and President Obama supported the campaign to label 1915 incidents as genocide. In recent days, both you and he have made direct appeals to Howard Berman, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, against a draft House resolution. Could you explain why you and the President have reversed course on this issue?", Clinton said, "Well, I think circumstances have changed in very significant ways. When President Obama took office and I became Secretary of State, we determined that the process undertaken by the Swiss in bringing the Turkey – Turkish and Armenian governments together was a very worthy one that we intended to support, and we have done so. I was personally in Zurich at the time that the protocols for the normalization of relationship between the two countries were signed. We think that is the appropriate way to manage the problems that have stood in the way of normalization between the two countries."
"Within the protocols, there was an agreed-upon approach to establishing a historical commission to look at events in the past. I do not think it is for any other country to determine how two countries resolve matters between them, to the extent that actions that the United States might take could disrupt this process," she said.
Clinton said, "therefore, both President Obama and I have made clear, both last year and again this year, that we do not believe any action by the Congress is appropriate, and we oppose it. We do not believe that the full Congress will or should act upon that resolution, and we have made that clear to all the parties involved."
The US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs approved the resolution on incidents of 1915 -- which took place shortly before the fall of the Ottoman Empire -- with 23 votes against 22.
