The US Congressman Adam Schiff, a descendant of Jews who survived Holocaust, said that he understands the pain of the Armenian people who survived the genocide, reports Armenian News -NEWS.am.

"Several days ago I was talking to my uncle. He is 90. He recalled our relatives who had been lost during the Holocaust. We were thinking about whether they had been killed or managed to escape; whether they moved to Israel or to America. Do we have relatives?  Where are their descendants? Likewise are the Armenians... But the pain of the Armenians is very special. What makes it special is the fact that the genocide remains unrecognized by Turkey as well as by my own government," said Schiff in his speech in the Congress on the evening dedicated to the memory of Armenian Genocide victims.

According to Schiff, non-recognition of the Armenian Genocide nowadays creates new crimes." That is what is happening in Syria, where a genocide is taking place ( of Christians and Yazidis - ed. ) since  Turkey does not  close borders before the foreign mercenaries , does not want to lose petrodollars and trafficking revenues. In addition, with the assistance and encouragement of Turkey there took place the Azerbaijani aggression against the Armenian people," said Schiff .

According to the US Congressman, in order to resolve the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh , the US government needs, first of all, to give up the policy of equivalent approaches.

"When one puts an equal sign between two sides – between the victim and the aggressor -- still referring to both , s/he pushes the aggressor to new aggressive actions, since s/he knows that s/he will not be brought to justice," said Schiff. According to him, a group of Congressmen plans to  restore prohibition of the provision of any US military assistance to Azerbaijan in the nearest future .