15.06.2022


The delegation led by Margareta Cederfelt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), who arrived in Armenia on a working visit, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on June 15 accompanied by Eduard Aghajanyan, Chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.

The guests were welcomed by the AGMI Deputy Director for Museum Affairs Lusine Abrahamyan, who presented the history of the memorial, as well as, the history of the memorial and the history of the creation of the Memorial. She also related the story of the 3 khachkars placed in Tsitsernakaberd Park and dedicated to the memory of the Armenians who perished during the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population within Azerbaijan at the end of the last century.

The members of the delegation from Europe 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 AGMI Senior Guide Hasmik Martirosyan, and toured the temporary and permanent exhibitions there, after which Margareta Cederfelt left a note in the Memory Book of Honorable Guests.