The California State Senate unanimously passed a resolution honoring and commending the extraordinary service of the Near East Relief and the American people who helped save over 132,000 orphans and provided humanitarian aid to the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

The resolution (AJR 41) was led by State Senator Kevin De Leon, the next president pro tem of the Senate, reported Asbarez.

Specifically, the resolution recognizes the Near East Relief organization and the unprecedented response by the United States to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson and the United States State Department by instituting the first congressionally sanctioned American philanthropic effort created exclusively to rescue the Armenian nation and other Christian minorities from annihilation.

AJR 41 also calls on the Chief Clerk of the CA Assembly to transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, the Minority Leader of the United States Senate, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.