By Michael W. Chapman | April 27, 2021 | 3:56pm EDT
President Joe Biden (Getty Images)
(CNS News) On Apr. 24, President Joe Biden issued a statement in honor of Armenian Remembrance Day, an official acknowledgement of the Ottoman Turks genocide of the Armenians, which occurred in the early 20th century and killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, mostly all of whom were Christians. Armenia first declared itself a Christian nation in the year A.D. 301.
Biden is the first U.S. president to issue an official statement on the Armenian genocide. In 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan referred to the genocide of the Armenians in a speech commemorating the liberation of the Nazi death camps.
People protest during a rally against the country s agreement to end fighting with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region outside the government headquarters in Yerevan, Armenia on Nov. 11, 2020. More than 2,000 demonstrators protested in the Armenian capital as anger mounted over Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan s decision to cede swathes of disputed territory to Azerbaijan under a controversial peace deal. | AFP via Getty Images/KAREN MINASYAN
A bipartisan group of over 100 members of Congress is urging the Biden administration to hold Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey accountable for the recent fighting with Armenia that displaced thousands and killed hundreds.
“The United States cannot allow Russia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to solely dictate and dominate the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh,” reads a bipartisan Armenian Caucus letter co-signed by 101 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense
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