“I agree that normalization between Armenia and Turkey should move forward without preconditions and within a reasonable timeframe,” said U.S. President Barack Obama in a letter to Hirair Hovnanian, chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America, APA reports quoting ArmToday.
The letter was sent in response to a joint appeal to Obama from Armenian Diaspora. The American Armenians urged Obama to honor his campaign pledges to recognize the “Armenian genocide”, but in his reply, Obama again didn’t use the word “genocide” calling 1915 events as “one of the great atrocities of the 20th century”. I believe that the best way to advance that goal is for the Armenian and Turkish people to address the facts of the past as part of their efforts to move forward", said Obama.
