It’s erroneous to think that the U.S. President did not recognize the Armenian Genocide because he did not use the term Genocide, according to the Armenian lawyers' association.

“The term Genocide is comparatively new, introduced in the international practice by Polish lawyer of Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Before, each nation that survived genocide gave it its own name – Holocaust, Mets Eghern. Barack Obama used the term Mets Eghern which is identical to a more modern term Genocide,” the association said in a statement.

The Armenian lawyers' association also emphasized that the term Mets Eghern was used twice and was qualified as an attempt to exterminate the Armenian nation. “It’s obvious that the U.S. President put the same meaning into the term Mets Eghern as we, Armenians, do... We appreciate highly the congressional initiative and call for adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution,” the statement said.