Indian Foreign Ministry Delegation paid tribute to memory of martyrs of Armenian Genocide

ArmInfo. The delegation of the  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of India visited the  Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.

According to the press service of the Museum-Institute of the  Armenian Genocide, the guests were introduced to the history of the  establishment of the memorial complex, as well as 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 Hushapat during the Artsakh war, emphasizing the  connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide.

Members of the delegation from India laid flowers at the Eternal Fire  and observed a minute's silence in memory of the innocent martyrs of  the Armenian Genocide.

The guests also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum, where,  accompanied by the Deputy Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum  Lusine Abrahamyan, they got acquainted with the permanent and  temporary exhibitions, after which they made an entry in the memory  book of honored guests.