Armenia says declaring genocide is security matter, Baku protests


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  • Sunday, 25 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's prime minister Nikol Pashinyan told U.S. President Joe Biden in a letter on Saturday that recognition of the genocide is a matter of security to Armenia after a war in Nagorno-Karabakh last year.

Biden said on Saturday that the 1915 massacres and forced deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.

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