Which Countries Recognized the Armenian Genocide

The fact of the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman government has been corroborated, recognized, and established through testimonies from witnesses, laws, resolutions, and decisions from numerous provinces and reputable international organizations. The complete series of documents labeling the mass killings of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as a premeditated and systematically executed genocidal act is vast.

The first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide was Uruguay in 1965. Over 30 countries around the world have fully recognized the genocide. The genocide has been acknowledged by Cyprus (1982), Russia (1995), Greece (1996), Lebanon (1997), Belgium (1998), the Vatican, Italy (2000), France (2001), Switzerland, Canada (2002), Argentina, Slovakia, the Netherlands (2004), Venezuela, Poland, Lithuania (2005), Chile (2007), Sweden (2010), Bolivia (2014), Austria, Luxembourg (2015), Germany (2016), Denmark, Czech Republic (2017), Portugal (2019), Syria (2020), the USA, Latvia (2021), and Mexico (2023).

Countries that have partially recognized the genocide include Spain, Brazil, Great Britain, Australia, and Ukraine.

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armenian Genocide Museum.