I doubt that US President Barack Obama will pronounce the word “genocide.”

Head of the Armenian Studies Program at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Vahram Shemmassian, stated the abovementioned on Friday.

Shemmassian added that Obama is making political calculations ever since being elected into office.

He recalled, however, that 43 of the 50 US states have already recognized the Armenian Genocide.

“The [US] states have an internal independence, and in this sense, they can’t have a huge impact on Washington’s foreign policy,” Vahram Shemmassian said, and added: “But regardless of what the US Federal Government and Barack Obama will do, 43 states have already recognized the Genocide, and that’s a big thing.”