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On the recordMay 22, 2018
Will you, as Secretary of State, do what so many other Secretaries have not and recognize the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against its Armenian citizens during World War I? Yes or no.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline questions Secretary Pompeo about recognizing the Armenian genocide.

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