28.03.2024


The delegation led by the Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Youth Affairs of the Parliament of Georgia, Givi Mikanadze, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial On March 28, accompanied by RA NA Deputy Narek Babayan and Georgia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, Giorgi Sharvashidze.

The delegation was greeted by Lusine Abrahamyan, AGMI Deputy Director for Museum Affairs, who narrated the history of the creation of the Memorial complex. She also presented the guests with the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak) and Baku in the last century organised by the Azerbaijani government, and the stories of the five freedom fighters buried in front of Memory Wall during the Artsakh war, emphasising the connection between what happened then and the Armenian Genocide.

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

Lusine Abrahamyan accompanied the guests to Hushapat, in the back of which, in special niches, small jars full of soil taken from the graves of a number of foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals and missionaries who raised their voice of protest against the massacres and deportations of Armenians carried out by the Turkish government, are summarized.

At the end of the visit the guests also had a tour in the Memory Park, where few days ago Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze planted a silver fir in memory of the Armenian Genocide martyrs.