The U.S. Embassy in Armenia has disseminated a statement clarifying a recent YouTube video in which Vice President Joe Biden alleges that the Armenian president asked Washington not to "force" the issue of Armenian genocide while Turkish-Armenian negotiations were in progress.
The video, posted on YouTube on October 26 and picked up by Armenian media shows Biden speaking to an Armenian-American community activist, who asks the U.S. official for a message from the administration of President Barack Obama on his campaign pledge to recognize the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire from 1915-19 as genocide. Biden responds: "…Tell [the Armenian-American community] that it was the Armenian president that called me and said, 'Look, do not force this issue now, while we're in negotiations [with Turkey on reconciliation]."
In its statement issued late on Friday, the U.S. Embassy said Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian "did not raise the issue of the content of President Obama's statement for Armenian Remembrance Day or seek a delay in consideration of House Resolution 252 [calling for the affirmation of the Armenian genocide]."
Armenian News
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