Biden offers Armenians and Turks a peace without fanaticism and intolerance

Yes, there was gratitude from the Armenian leaders or an expression of dissatisfaction between the presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan.  However, Biden's statement did not create the effect that took place during the adoption of similar statements by leaders or parliaments of a number of countries in the past.

A positive test of this statement was the statement of fatigue from the long confrontation between the two societies not only in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, but also in America and Europe.

In fact, the main message of Biden's address was directed towards the future, which the American president sees as "peace untainted by the everyday vices of bigotry and intolerance," and he invites both parties to build it.

“Today, as we mourn what was lost; let us also turn our eyes to the future—toward the world that we wish to build for our children. A world unstained by the daily evils of bigotry and intolerance, where human rights are respected, and where all people are able to pursue their lives in dignity and security. Let us renew our shared resolve to prevent future atrocities from occurring anywhere in the world. And let us pursue healing and reconciliation for all the people of the world."

In this sense, Biden's statement pursued a number of objectives:

1. to appease the Armenians who were defeated in 2020 in a thirty-year victorious confrontation with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, and who have lost their dominance in the South Caucasus region.

2. to increase the level of confidence in the United States as an important mediator not only in the final settlement of the Karabakh problem, but also in the establishment of peace between the Armenians and Turkey.

3. to remove the topic of recognition of genocide from the American agenda, and thereby free hands in Turkish and Caucasian politics.

4. to stimulate future real dialogue between the Armenian community and the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem.

The Biden administration was well aware of the excesses to US interests in the region due to the promotion of the topic of recognition of the genocide. Therefore, Biden's preemptive call to Erdogan on April 23 was intended to eliminate suspicions of Washington's desire to use the topic of genocide in order to intensify confrontation in the region.

“President Joseph R. Biden spoke today with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, conveying his interest in a constructive bilateral relationship with expanded areas of cooperation and effective management of disagreements. The leaders agreed to hold a bilateral meeting on the margins of the NATO Summit in June to discuss the full range of bilateral and regional issues.”

The statement on the recognition of the genocide fits well into today's agenda, when all the participants in the Minsk peace process on Karabakh, including the parties to the conflict and mediators, are interested in advancing negotiations and reaching a consensus, which would open the way to the peaceful relations between the warring states, which is experiencing decline and great social tension. ...

This is not 1981, when President Reagan was the first American leader to call the events of 1915 in Turkey genocide. That was the era of the global US-Soviet confrontation and the time of mutual encouragement of nationalism and separatism as an instrument of the Cold War. In principle, in this war, the goals and objectives of the United States to destroy the USSR were achieved.

Today the region of Asia Minor, to which the Caucasus belongs, is a zone of greater influence of the United States, where, along with promoting its strategy, the United States does not hide the desire to establish Western-like democracies that could ensure a combination of international and local national interests. The topic of recognizing or not recognizing the genocide disappears from the agenda as a geopolitical factor in politics, while remaining a historical fact of the 1915 tragedy.