US President Joe Biden officially acknowledged the Armenian genocide in a statement released by the White House, stating that the gesture is intended to "confirm the story", and "not blame" Turkey.
"but we want this to never happen again."
"Turkey has no lessons for anyone to take on its history," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu immediately replied.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a message addressed to the Armenian patriarch, denounced the "politicization by third parties" of the debate on genocide.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan applauds the US recognition, calling Biden's "a powerful step". "Finally the American president calls things by their real name and sends a strong message in defense of human rights", the Armenian ambassador to the United States, Varuzhan Nersesyan, commented shortly before. "That of President Biden is an act of great moral leadership against a long history of denial", said the diplomat interviewed by CNN, underlining how "the Armenian genocide is not just a matter of the past or that concerns only the Armenian people, but it is a question that concerns everyone, to avoid new genocides in the future ".