ArmInfo.. During a briefing, referring to the desecration of the Armenian khachkar in the United States, Kayleigh McEnany, spokeswoman for the White House, used the term "Armenian genocide".
"It seems that there is a lack of perception and historical knowledge when the memorial complex of the Armenian Genocide, which is a tribute to all crimes committed against humanity, including slavery, is subjected to vandalism," McEnany said.
It should be noted that at the end of May of this year, during a protest in the USA in the center of Denver, a khachkar was desecrated with aerosol paint on the Armenian Genocide and the victims of all crimes against humanity. This khachkar is a copy of one of the three thousand medieval khachkars of the legendary Julf cemetery, destroyed by the Azerbaijani government in 2005 as part of a plan to destroy the Armenian heritage in Nakhidjevan.
It should be noted that the United States does not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, and this despite the fact that almost all states have adopted resolutions that recognize and condemn this crime against humanity. US Presidents use the Armenian term "Metz Egern" (the great massacre) during the annual messages to the Armenian Diaspora on April 24, in qualifying those events, evading the use of the term "Armenian genocide".