The non-usage of the word genocide by the U.S. President is a failure to honor his own pledge, Head of the ARF Bureau's Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office Director Kiro Manoyan said. “Though Barack Obama used all the synonyms characterizing the Armenian Genocide, except for that word, it proves that the he does not differ from the presidents criticized by him for non-recognition of the Genocide. This time he had no reasons for refraining from using the term genocide,” Kiro Manoyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the Armenian community of the U.S., again using term Meds Yeghern with respect to the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.