Benjamin Haddad visits Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex

ArmInfo. Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate for European Affairs to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, visited the Tsitsernakaberd  Memorial Complex and the Armenian Genocide Museum.

According to the Museum-Institute's press service, the guests were  welcomed and accompanied by Hrachya Tashyan, Acting Director of the  Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

Benjamin Haddad laid a wreath at the memorial wall, after which the  delegation members laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and observed a  minute of silence to honor the memory of the victims of the Armenian  Genocide. The delegation toured the memorial complex and the Memory  Wall, behind which, in special niches,  small jars are interred  containing soil taken from the graves of several foreign public  figures, politicians, intellectuals, and missionaries who raised  their voice of protest the massacres and the Armenian Genocide  committed by the Turkish government in the late 19th and early 20th  centuries. The guests stopped at the monuments of Anatole France and  Louis Dartige du Fournet.

Then the delegation visited the Armenian Genocide Museum, where,  accompanied by guide Hasmik Martirosyan, they toured the permanent  and temporary exhibitions. At the end of the visit, they left a note  in the Honorary  Guest Book.