Armenian presidential press secretary Armen Arzumanyan commented on the YouTube video showing an alleged conversation between U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and a representative of the Armenian community.

“The President of Armenia has never made calls to the Vice President of the United States Joe Biden. There were two phone calls initiated by the latter in 2009 and during those calls the President of Armenia did not use the expression ascribed to him in the video - directly or indirectly. On the contrary, in all public appearances and during official meetings, the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has been emphasizing the importance of the international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide and has been urging not to excuse the procrastination of the recognition by the ongoing negotiations with Turkey. Being confident that the White House possesses all the official records of all phone calls made by the Vice President of the United States and his video recordings, the Administration of the President of Armenia gives its official consent to publish the recording of the mentioned phone call,” Arzumanyan stated. 

The YouTube video shows that talking to an Armenian young man Joe Biden said the following, “What you should be giving to your community is that we are not backing off. The Turks have to come to the realization of what the reality is. And what we got to do is, you know, this, the compromise that was going on and being worked at for a while. Tell them that it was the Armenian President that called me and said ‘Look, do not force this issue now, while we are in negotiations. We passed. That’s past right now.’  So anyway, reality has a way of intruding.”