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2021-04-25 09:20 By: Xinhua
Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on March 25, 2021 shows a screen displaying U.S. President Joe Biden speaking during a press conference in Washington, D.C., in a live stream provided by Fox News. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
Biden is the first U.S. president to use the term genocide in describing the mass killing against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire, breaking with his predecessors who did not want to undermine relations with Turkey.
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Xinhua) U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killing against Armenians more than a century ago as a genocide, a move that could further worsen relations between the United States and Turkey.
US President Joe Biden departs from mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killing against Armenians more than a century ago as a genocide, a move that could further worsen relations between the United States and Turkey. The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today, Biden said in a statement issued by the White House on Saturday, the Armenian Remembrance Day. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated, he noted.
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