On April 24, during his annual address to the Armenian people, U.S. President is most likely to do what he did last year – Barack Obama will say the phrase “Medz Yeghern” instead of uttering the word “genocide.” He will maneuver so as not make either Turkey or the million-strong Armenian Diaspora angry, Andrey Areshev, Deputy Director of the Strategic Culture Foundation told NEWS.am.

As regard the Armenian Genocide resolution, it will share the fate of the previous ones, which, under the White House pressure, were either rejected or remained undiscussed. “But I think that the Armenian Genocide will always be kept as a trump card for pressuring Turkey. The discussion of the Armenian Genocide by the British and Bulgarian Parliaments are also part of the USA’s game to pressure Turkey,” Areshev said.

The expert also stressed that the reason for the U.S. interest in the establishment of Armenian-Turkish relations are not at all humanitarian. Rather, the United States is pursuing its geopolitical goals, namely, pressuring Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Specifically, the situation surrounding Iran is much more complicated now, as the United States has succeeded in bringing discord into Russian-Iranian relations. “Russia, in turn, preoccupied with its own socio-economic problems, is not pursuing an active regional policy. In this situation, the Russian-Armenian relations are a stabilizing factor, and the level of the bilateral relations must by no means become lower, as it will have negative consequences for both Armenia and Russia,” the expert said.

T.P.