Newly elected president of Argentina Mauricio Macri advocates the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire in the beginning of 20th century.
As Prensa Armenia reports, during his tenure as Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri rejected the construction of a bust of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. At that time, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called off a visit to the country for this reason.
In April 2012, Macri visited Yerevan for the transfer of the World Book Capital, which in 2011 had been in Buenos Aires and in 2012 was in Yerevan. He visited the Armenian Genocide Museum. In April 2015, during the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, Mauricio Macri published on Facebook a post titled "100 years of the Armenian Genocide: I do not forget you".