U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee member and outspoken advocate of international affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, Bob Menendez called the regulations of Armenia-Turkey Protocols “frankly absurd”, Asbarez daily reports. Menendez said: “I do not think that Armenia should be pressured into anything that is not in their national interests or in the long-term national interests of the U.S.”

Commenting on the Protocols’ provision on the creation of historians’ sub-commission, the Senator stated that “it is an insult to Armenian people. It is an insult to the memory of the victims. It is an insult to the top scholars who have clearly spoken on this issue and issued their unequivocal conclusions. It is time that Turkey recognizes it and accepts it. It is time that the world acknowledges this fact of history and moves on towards a viable peace that honors the true history of the Armenian people.”