The Trump administration still does not view the mass killing of Armenians from 1915-1923 as genocide, despite overwhelming bipartisan support by US lawmakers to formally recognize it as such
In a statement released Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said the administration has not changed its position on the matter.
In that statement, which commemorated"Armenian Remembrance Day," President Donald Trump called the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that took place from 1915 to 1923"one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century." Last week, the Senate passed a resolution to designate the mass killings as a genocide, describing it as"the killing of an estimated 1,500,000 Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923." It passed by unanimous consent after Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, brought it up for consideration on the floor. Under Senate rules, legislation can pass by unanimous consent without a roll call vote as long as no senator objects.
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