Popular American newspaper The Washington Post comments on the Genocide Resolution scheduled for a vote in the U.S. Congress for March 4. The document calls on President Obama to label the events of 1915 as genocide and “use the term during an annual address on the topic next month,” reads the article by Dan Eggen.

According to him, the bill will disclose whether Armenians were “target for campaign ethnic cleansings.” Thereby, Congress gets involved in a heated debates between Turkey and Armenia," the author emphasizes.

The author recalls that Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also backed terming of 1915 events as genocide.

Commenting on powerful Turkish lobby that urges to reject resolution, Eggen brings an example of Fleishman-Hillard public relations firm that had contract with Turkey estimated at over $100.000 a month or country’s “current lobbyist” the Gephardt Group that gets $70.000 each month.

The author notes that unlike Turkey, Armenian government does not have “a U.S. representative on file.” However, he names some organizations such as Armenian National Committee and Armenian Assembly of America lobbying Armenia’s interests in the U.S.