JOHN EVANS: PRESIDENT BUSH’S APRIL 24 ADDRESS EXPRESSES US GOVERNMENT’S LATEST AND OFFICIAL POLICY REGARDING THIS ISSUE
YEREVAN, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. “President George Bush’s April 24 address
expresses the latest and official policy of US government regarding
this issue,” US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to RA
John Evans declared in his interview to the Yerkir web site, answering
the question, when the US will recognize the Armenian Genocide. The
ambassador quotted the following part of Bush’s address: “On Armenian
Remembrance Day, we remember the forced exile and mass killings of
as many as 1.5 million Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman
Empire. This terrible event is what many Armenian people have come
to call the “Great Calamity. I join my fellow Americans and Armenian
people around the world in expressing my deepest condolences for this
horrible loss of life.”