Bagis: "What will happen if Obama mentions the word 'genocide' or not?"

In a television interview, EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis yesterday touched upon on the French Senate's passing of the bill that criminalizes the denial of Armenian genocide claims and the US President Barack Obama's upcoming April 24 statement on the commemoration of the 'genocide." In connection with the investigation launched in Switzerland for his denial of Armenian genocide claims while he was in that country, Bagis noted that a preliminary investigation was underway and that he could visit Switzerland without any problem, since anyone would hardly arrest a Turkish minister. Speaking on Obama's April 24 statement, Bagis said, 'What will happen if Obama mentions the word ‘genocide' or not? If someone says ‘genocide,' then it is genocide, and if he does not say ‘genocide,' then it is not genocide?" Bagis also noted that the world's largest archives on 1915 were in Boston, which could be studied solely by Armenian historians, and requested the US to open those archives to other academics throughout the world as well.