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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.”
Apa.az
