US President Barack Obama has again broken his campaign pledge avoiding to use the term “genocide” in his annual address to the Armenian nation.
This year Obama delivered his address on April 23, a day earlier than scheduled.
He called the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ‘horrific’, but he again stopped short of branding it Genocide, the Associated Press reported.
The US President again used the Armenian term, Mets Yeghern (great calamities) to describe the atrocities against the Armenians in 1915-1923. He also highly praised the efforts of Armenia and Turkey “to foster a dialogue that acknowledges their common history.”
“A full, frank, and just acknowledgement of the facts is in all our interests,” AP quoted Obama as saying.
Armenian News
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