Today the US House of Representatives is discussing the bill on recognizing the Armenian Genocide. It is hard to say what the results of the vote may be, but it is even harder to say what it will give to Armenian if this bill is approved or not. If the bill is adopted by the House of Representatives, it does not mean yet that the US will recognize the Genocide by all means, as many people are trying to assure the Armenians. It is evident that this issue concerns the Armenian-Turkish relations, and again the US is using the issue of the Armenian Genocide to solve the problems with the relations with Turkey. The only thing we can see now is the joy of the faces of Armenian officials waiting for the discussion of the House of Representatives. The Turkish authorities have numerously announced that in such case the Armenian-Turkish protocols will be failed. It is the protocol, which the Armenian authorities say are fully corresponding with the interests of Armenia and “are the good results of the initiating policy”. In a word, if they really assure that the issue of the protocols has a very big importance for Armenia in this phase of the history, it should be more important than the mid-term goal of the recognition, the result of which is rather cloudy and suspicious. As for the joy the authorities demonstrate now, it comes to prove that it is a good opportunity for them to fail the adoption of the protocols.
