"Secretary of State Rice Condoleezza Rice asked us before we came here to express that the Bush administration is opposed to this resolution," said Edelman, who was the US ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005.
Rice said she spoke on Friday by telephone with Turkey's president, prime minister and foreign minister about the genocide resolution.
"They were dismayed," she said.
"I urged restraint," she added, referring to both the reaction to the genocide resolution and in the situation in northern Iraq.
"The Turkish government, I think, is trying to react responsibly. They recognize how hard we worked to prevent that vote from taking place," Rice said.
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