11.07.2024


Arnold Kammel, the General Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Austria, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on July 11. Leading a delegation including Dr. Arnold Kammel, Director of Defense Policy at the Ministry, the visit was accompanied by Colonel Arakelyan, Head of the Department of International Military Cooperation of the RA Defense Ministry.

The delegation was welcomed by Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, who provided an overview of the Memorial Complex's history.

Mr. Arnold Kammel laid a wreath at the Memorial to the Victims of the Armenian Genocide and placed flowers at the Eternal Fire, observing a minute of silence in honor of the innocent victims of the genocide.

Mrs. Gzoyan then accompanied the guests to the Memory Wall, which contains small containers of soil taken from the graves of 19th and 20th-century foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals, and missionaries who protested against the massacres and deportations of Armenians by the Turkish government. The delegation heard about the Jewish Austrian writer Franz Werfel and his book "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh".

They were led through the Armenian Genocide Museum's permanent and temporary exhibitions by the AGMI Director, after which they inscribed their thoughts in the Memory Book for Honored Guests.