J.D. Vance Deleted Tweet About Armenian Genocide Before Visit to Azerbaijan
US Vice President J.D. Vance visited the memorial to the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide during his visit to Armenia.
Usha and J.D. Vance at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial. Photo: Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images
He then headed to Azerbaijan, hostile to Armenia, and on the way, deleted a tweet about his visit to Armenia, Bild writes.
The Tsitsernakaberd Memorial was erected in memory of about 1.5 million Armenians, who were killed or deported to the desert by the Ottoman Empire's troops in 1915-1916, where people died of starvation. However, Turkey – the successor state to the Ottoman Empire – still denies the genocide, as does its ally, the dictator of Azerbaijan. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at most of some "difficult circumstances of the First World War" of which Armenians were victims.
After visiting the memorial, a video of his visit appeared on Vance's X account with the text: "Today, Vice President Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Armenian Genocide Memorial to honor the victims of the 1915 genocide."
A little over an hour later (the flight from Yerevan to Baku lasted 74 minutes), the tweet was deleted. In response to its inquiry about the reasons for this action, CNN received the answer: the tweet was mistakenly posted by an employee who was not part of the travel delegation.
This was followed by greetings, applause, and photos with President Ilham Aliyev in Azerbaijan. There, Vance signed an agreement on "strategic partnership."
The US recognized the Armenian Genocide specifically as a genocide only in 2021 under President Joe Biden. However, the Trump administration viewed Turkey as an important partner and again refused to call the 1915 events what they were.
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