"U.S. will continue efforts to promote ratification of the 2009 Armenian-Turkish rapprochement Protocols," John Heffern said.

Ed Royce (R-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), David Cicilline (D-RI1), and Lois Frankel (D-FL22) laid flowers to the Genocide memorial in Yerevan.

President Serzh Sargyan issued an address on the 99the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

“We each bear the obligation of remembrance as a necessary step toward preventing such acts in the future,” AJC Executive Director said.

District Police Chief Hafiz Khan said the guard suddenly started shooting in Cure Hospital in the west of the capital.

"I will keep working to ensure that this unspeakable crime is fully acknowledged, never forgotten, and never repeated," Senator Boxer said.

The U.S. President made the remarks at a joint news conference after a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The Human Rights Association of Turkey issued a statement, calling for an end to the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

"The Security Council must take action to deal with these flagrant violations of the basic principles of international law," Ban wrote.

Present-day Turkey denies the fact of the Armenian Genocide, justifying the atrocities as “deportation to secure Armenians”.