Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has briefly talked about the Armenian Genocide during a speech at the Munich Security Conference, however, President el-Sisi avoided to use the actual term “genocide”. Egypt has not formally recognized the massacres of Armenians committed by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide.
Talking about migrants and minorities, as well as terrorism, the Egyptian president emphasized that over 100 years ago his country accepted and gave refuge to survivors of the Armenian Genocide. However, he did not speak about what had led to the Armenians being scattered all over the world, including to Egypt.
The Armenian National Committee of Egypt has labeled el-Sisi’s statement as a “pre-step” towards recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
“True, although the Egyptian president did not use the term “genocide”, he did however make the first step in this direction, by seeing the need for mentioning it in light of current realities,” the Armenian National Committee of Egypt said in a news release.
“Initially he ...
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