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YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. The U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick has reflected on the Armenian massacres in the final days of the Ottoman Empire and made a post on this on his Twitter page.
As reports “Armenpress”, among other things, the U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador James Warlick underscored: “As we work for Nagorno Karabakh peace, we remember the suffering and massacres of the final days of the Ottoman Empire and mourn for all victims.”
The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican, Australia and Bolivia.