The leader of the Democrats, the majority in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer at the Senate raised the issue of US President Joe Biden’s decision to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
“It’s come to my attention that President Biden tends to have the US formally recognize the Armenian Genocide, becoming the first sitting US president to do so. Great news. It’s a long time coming, a step that I have called on presidents of both parties to take. Each year I gather with Armenian-Americans in Times Square to commemorate the annual anniversary of this atrocity. And every year my heart breaks for the victims of the Genocide and their descendants. There are few left but some very elderly people are sitting in the audience each year reminding us how painful and how real the Genocide was. The Turkish Government’s idea of saying there was no Genocide, just defies the history. I have seen the victims, I have talked to the victims. And so, Saturday marks the 106-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, and I am so relieved, grateful and moved that we can finally commemorate the anniversary with the knowledge, that the Government of the US, led by President Joseph Biden, has recognized the truth of the Armenian Genocide at last,” Chuck Schumer said.
