24 April 2021, 11:15
Analysts assess chances of Biden's recognizing Armenian Genocide
The change in the US geopolitical strategy and the deterioration of US-Turkish relations increase the chances that President Joe Biden will pronounce the word "genocide" on April 24, Ruben Safrastyan, a Turkologist, and Suren Sargsyan, an Americanist, assert.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that The Wall Street Journal announced that Biden would publicly voice out his attitude to the events of 1915, which the House of Representatives of the Congress had recognized as the Armenian Genocide.
The chances that Biden will pronounce the word "genocide" in his message are rather high, Mr Safrastyan believes.
"The US foreign policy interests are shifting to the East, to the regions dominated by China. This leads to the fact that for the USA the importance of the Near and Middle East, including Turkey, is decreasing," Ruben Safrastyan has explained.
Besides, the US is unhappy with its relations with Turkey.
Suren Sargsyan, who is also the scientific director of the Armenian Centre for American Studies, believes that US-Turkish relations are at a critical level, although the Biden's administration has not yet made any loud anti-Turkish statements.
In his opinion, Biden's position on Nagorno-Karabakh differs from that of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
Naira Airumyan, the editor-in-chief of the "Lragir.am", has noted that everything depends on the wording to be chosen by the US President. "If he utters the word 'genocide', a trial may be launched to recognize the events of 1915 as genocide ... and this will be fraught with the loss of territorial integrity for Turkey," she has stated.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on April 23, 2021 at 11:13 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Author: Tigran Petrosyan Source: CK correspondent
