WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Obama administration on Friday sought to limit fallout from a US resolution branding the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces as ''genocide,'' and vowed to stop it from going further in Congress.

Turkey was infuriated and recalled its ambassador after a House of Representatives committee on Thursday approved the nonbinding measure condemning killings that took place nearly 100 years ago, in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

A Democratic leadership aide told Reuters there were no plans ''at this point'' to schedule a vote of the full House on the measure, and a State Department official said this was the administration's understanding as well.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, facing questions about the issue while traveling in Latin America, declared Congress should drop the matter now.  ''The Obama administration strongly opposes the resolution that was passed by only one vote in the House committee and will work very hard to make sure it does not go to the House floor,'' she said in Guatemala City.

The resolution squeaked through the House Foreign Affairs Committee 23-22 on Thursday despite a last-minute appeal against it from the Obama administration, which feared damage to ties with Turkey. The NATO ally is crucial to US interests in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East.

The issue puts President Barack Obama between Turkey, a secular Muslim democracy that looks toward the West, and Armenian-Americans, an important constituency in some states like California and New Jersey, ahead of the November congressional elections.