Armenia`s authorities apply to lobbyists to establish contacts with  Trump administration - expert 

ArmInfo. The Armenian authorities were unable to establish contacts with the administration of the new US President Donald Trump during the 100 days of his presidency, and decided to resort to an alternative method of establishing  cooperation with the new administration. This is stated in the  analysis prepared by the Armenian Center for American Studies, owned  by Americanist Suren Sargsyan.

The center analyzed the key processes in the Armenian-American  bilateral relations during the first 100 days of Trump's presidency.

The presented analysis notes that in April of this year, the Armenian  Embassy in the United States signed an agreement with one of the  professional lobbying organizations operating in Washington. The  analysis notes that the contract, the amount of which is $50 thousand  per month, will be valid from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. "This  initiative is aimed at promoting Armenia's interests in the US  Congress and administration. The main goals are the development of  Armenian-American economic, trade, investment and technological  cooperation, as well as an emphasis on the geopolitical and strategic  importance of Armenia as an important partner of the US in the  context of regional and global interests in the South Caucasus," the  authors of the analysis note.

The analysis also draws attention to another important event that  occurred during the first hundred days of Trump's presidency, namely  the official statement of the US President on April 24 - the day of  remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.

The authors of the analysis note that Joe Biden became the first US  President to publicly use the word "genocide" in the context of  qualifying the tragedy that happened to the Armenians at the  beginning of the 20th century.

"This was the result of a long struggle of the Armenian diaspora and  evidence of Biden's pro-Armenian policy. Unlike him, Trump did not  follow this example and, like his predecessors, avoided using the  term "genocide", limiting himself to the wording "Meds Yeghern". In  general, his statement contained many evasive formulations," the  Armenian Center for American Studies summarized in the analysis.

US President Donald Trump did not use the term "genocide" in his  message on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian  Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, and US Ambassador to Armenia  Christina Kvien followed his example.

The US legislature recognized the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman  Empire back in 2019, and already in 2021, President Joe Biden in his  message on the occasion of April 24, qualified the incident as  genocide.