01.10.2022


On October 1, the delegation led by the President of the Italian Court of Cassation, Pietro Curzio, who arrived in Armenia on a working visit, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial, accompanied by the President of the RA Court of Cassation, Lilit Tadevosyan, Italian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, Alfonso Di Rizzo, and RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy, Tsovinar Hambardzumyan.

The guests were welcomed by the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Harutyun Marutyan, who presented the history of the creation of the Memorial. She gave the delegation the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres organised by the Azerbaijani government in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku in the last century.

The Italian guests laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent martyrs of the Armenian Genocide.

The guests also visited the Armenian Genocide Museum accompanied by Lusine Abrahamyan and toured the temporary and permanent exhibitions there.

At the end of the visit Mr. Pietro Curzio Martinez left a note in the Memory Book for Honorable Guests.