Delegation from Leipzig visits Tsitsernakaberd Memorial

ArmInfo.  A delegation from Leipzig (Federal Republic of Germany) visited the  Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to the Victims of the Armenian  Genocide and the Armenian Genocide Museum.

According to the Museum-Institute's press service, the visit was  organized within the framework of an agreement signed last year by  the mayors of Yerevan and Leipzig to organize a cultural year between  Leipzig and Yerevan,  to promote cultural cooperation and exchange  between the two cities.

The delegation included representatives from the Leipzig municipality  and the city's leading cultural institutions.

Recall, on June 2, 2016, the German Bundestag adopted a resolution  classifying the mass extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire  in 1915-1916 as genocide. The resolution was adopted almost  unanimously—one member abstained and one voted against. The  resolution not only recognizes the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman  Turkey in the early 20th century, but also acknowledges Germany's  responsibility for these events.