ArmInfo.The US House of Representatives adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide by 405 votes in favor, 11 against with three abstentions. This is an important step in the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and in the global prevention of genocides. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.
"Let us recall the memory of one and a half million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide," the head of the Armenian government wrote.
On the eve of the US House of Representatives adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The congressmen admit that the accelerated consideration of the resolution was caused by the crisis in relations with Ankara due to the Turkish operation in northern Syria. According to the BBC, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the decision of the American congressmen an attempt to "use history to achieve political goals." Official Ankara is expected to respond to recognition of the genocide by recalling its ambassador from Washington, who previously called the text of the document full of baseless accusations.
Mass deportations and killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 were recognized as genocide in Russia, Germany, France, Canada and several other countries of the world. However, Turkey invariably protests against this interpretation, and after it the US government previously avoided calling these events genocide. Similar resolutions have been considered in Congress for a long time, but have never before been voted on by the House of Representatives. US President Donald Trump, like his predecessor Barack Obama, avoids the use of the word "genocide" in official speeches in relation to the events of 1915.