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U.S. House and Senate resolutions of 2019

The House passed H. Res. 296 on 29 October 2019 and the Senate agreed to S. Res. 150 on 12 December 2019, each commemorating the Armenian Genocide.

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U.S. Congress the House (405 to 11) and the Senate adopted them Primary record 1 2
Ronald Reagan the resolution cites his 1981 proclamation as earlier official recognition Primary record 1 3

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H. Res. 296, 116th Congress: Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide (as passed by the House, 29 October 2019), U.S. Government Publishing Office, 29 Oct 2019. Primary record
reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United States Government with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide
through President Ronald Reagan's Proclamation No. 4838 on April 22, 1981
S. Res. 150, 116th Congress: commemorating the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance (agreed to 12 December 2019), U.S. Government Publishing Office, 12 Dec 2019. Primary record
the killing of an estimated 1,500,000 Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923
Proclamation 4838: Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 22 April 1981, The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, 22 Apr 1981. Primary record
Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it—and like too many other such persecutions of too many other peoples—the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

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