(CNN) The Trump administration still does not view the mass killing of Armenians from 1915-1923 as genocide, despite overwhelming bipartisan support by US lawmakers to formally recognize it as such.

In a statement released Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said the administration has not changed its position on the matter.

"Our views are reflected in the President's definitive statement on this issue from last April," Ortagus said.

In that statement, which commemorated "Armenian Remembrance Day," President Donald Trump called the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that took place from 1915 to 1923 "one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century."

"We pledge to learn from past tragedies so as to not to repeat them. We welcome the efforts of Armenians and Turks to acknowledge and reckon with their painful history," Trump said in the statement. The statement did not mention genocide, but did recognize the man who coined the term -- Raphael Lemkin -- for his work seeking "to ensure atrocities like this would not be repeated."

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