US DEPARTMENT OF STATE REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”
APA, Azerbaijan
April 14 2015
[ 15 April 2015 00:51 ]
State Department spokesman Marie Harf again did not say the word
“genocide”
Baku-APA. The US State Department on Tuesday condemned the events in
the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last century, but again
refused to recognize “genocide”, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.
“The US president and other senior administration officials have
repeatedly acknowledged destruction of 1.5 million Armenians in the
last days of the Ottoman Empire as historical fact and stressed that
full acknowledgment of this responds interests of all, including
Turkey, Armenia and the United States”, – said State Department
spokesman Marie Harf, answering reporters’ question to comment on
the statement of Pope Francis that it was “the first genocide” of
the 20th century.
However, again Harf did not say the word “genocide”. But when
reporters asked her to respond to the words of Pope Francis, said:
“Nothing more than what I have said.”