Vice President JD Vance hailed Armenia as a “bedrock of Christian civilization and culture” and later deleted a post referring to the Armenian genocide during a historic visit to the war-torn country amid ongoing tensions between one of the world's first national churches and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Vance arrived in Armenia on Monday, marking the first-ever visit by a sitting U.S. vice president or president as part of the Trump administration's push to offer economic incentives as it works toward a U.S.-brokered peace agreement to end the long-running conflict between Armenia and the neighboring Muslim-majority Azerbaijan.
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