Harut Sassounian calls Obama 'deceitful president' (video)
Publisher and editor-in chief of “The California Courier” Harut Sassounian says U.S. President Barack Obama should feel ashamed for not keeping his campaign pledge and calling the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks ‘genocide.’ “Shame on him [Obama] for not honouring his [2008] campaign promise! This was his last chance to pronounce the word but he stopped short of labeling the 1915 events genocide. A deceitful president will end his term the way his predecessors did,” Sassounian said on April 25 during a meeting with media representatives. At the same time, Mr Harut Sassounian stresses that the United States recognized the massacre as genocide long ago irrespective of Obama’s move. Speaking about the international recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh), the publisher of the oldest independent English-language Armenian newspaper in the United States said ‘seven U.S. states have already recognized the independence of Artsakh.’ “Many ask today why Armenia does not recognize the independence of Artsakh. Serzh Sargsyan has announced that Armenia will recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh if Azeris attack Karabakh. The moment has come and besides recognizing the independence of Karabakh we should also announce that Arsakh is part of Armenia,” Mr Sassounian said.
