Samantha Power regrets that USA did not recognize Armenian Genocide during Obama’s Presidency

Former Ambassador of the USA to the UN Samantha Power who currently delivers lectures at Harvard Kennedy School of Government mentioned with sorrow that the USA did not recognize the Armenian Genocide during Obama’s presidency.

“I am very sorry that, during our time in office, we in the Obama administration did not recognize the Armenian Genocide,” Power twitted. Barack Obama had promised the Armenian community in the USA for several times during his electoral campaign to recognize the Armenian Genocide in case of being elected president, but every year he used the term “Medz Yeghern” in his April 24 statements instead of “genocide”.

The Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized and acknowledged by eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions and the decisions of numerous states and international organizations.

There are numerous documents considering the massacres of the Armenian people as a pre-planned and thoroughly implemented act of genocide. Organizations like the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, a number of UN Committees, the World Council of Churches, MERCOSUR parliament and others acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.

Many countries have recognized the Armenian Genocide: Uruguay is the first country that acknowledged the Genocide in 1965. The following countries have condemned and recognized the massacre of Armenians as a genocide based on international law: France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina (2 laws, 5 resolutions), Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Canada, Vatican, Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, Australia’s state of New South Wales, 45 US states.