Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said President Bush "reiterated his opposition to the Armenian Genocide resolution, the passage of which would be harmful to U.S. relations with Turkey."

NEWSru.co.il web site has accomplished a survey titled “Israel and Armenian Genocide.” The survey proceeded in two stages (August 27-28 and October 2). 561 people took part in the survey, 509 of them answered all of the questions.

The United States congress is expected to vote on the Armenian genocide resolution. But there are doubts since it may badly damage US and Turkish relations. The House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts that the bill will pass.

“It is with dismay that I read the content of the letter signed by former US Secretaries of State urging Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to derail H. Res. 106,” says a statement by Vartan Oskanian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, on the letter by Former Secretaries of State to U.S. Speaker of the House Pelosi on the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106).

A U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has charged a former Khmer Rouge prison chief with crimes against humanity -- the first such indictment against a leader of the regime blamed for the deaths of nearly two million Cambodians.

The screening of film titled "Return" of French-Armenian director Serge Avetisyan in Istanbul did no result in any incidents, although it was dedicated to the Armenian Genocide.

A Bosnian Serb general accused of genocide in the 1990s Bosnian war is expected to be transferred to The Hague war crimes tribunal today, a day after he was captured in Bosnia, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reports.

Today Armenia and Armenians throughout the world with international community commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide, conducted by the Ottoman Turkey in 1915. Many governments and countries have recognized the events of 1915 as Genocide. Turkey continues to deny the fact as a genocide.

The war crimes trial of former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski, who is accused over an attack on ethnic Albanians in 2001, started today in The Hague. RFE/RL Macedonia analyst Nakev Ljupco says this case is a landmark for the UN tribunal, which was established to prosecute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed in the ex-Yugoslav territory.

Turkey opens an Armenian church but outlaws praying and worship in it. Turkey speaks of tragedy of 1915 but stubbornly denies the term "genocide."

"The Turkish government's aim is to use opening of the Holy Cross Church on Akhtamar island - a sacred Armenian religious site - as a public relations tactic to mislead international public opinion," Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian told PanARMENIAN.Net.