ArmInfo.A memorial service was held in the Armenian Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Brussels in memory of the victims of the Sumgait pogroms on February 27-29, 1988.
As reported by the press service of the NKR MFA, the liturgy was attended by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Artsakh Armine Aleksanyan, Head of the Department of the Office of the Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan, diplomats of the Embassy of Armenia in the Kingdom of Belgium and the Permanent Mission of Armenia to NATO, representatives of the Armenian community of Belgium.
Then the Armenian community of Belgium organized a rally dedicated to the memory of victims of the Sumgait pogroms and a wreath-laying ceremony at the Khachkar monument in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.