Delegation led by UK Secretary of State for Defence visited  Tsitsernakaberd

ArmInfo. A delegation led by Lord Vernon Rodney Cocker, Minister of State for Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, visited the  Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to the Victims of the Armenian  Genocide.

According to the press service of the Armenian Genocide  Museum-Institute, the guests were greeted by the museum's director,  Edita Gzoyan, who led them to the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex  and explained the history of its creation. The AGMI director also  spoke about the three khachkars erected on the Tsitsernakaberd site  in memory of the Armenians who fell victim to the massacres  perpetrated by the Azerbaijani government in Sumgait, Kirovabad  (Gandzak), and Baku at the end of the last century, and the stories  of the five liberator soldiers buried in front of the Memorial during  the Artsakh War, emphasizing the connection between the events and  the Armenian Genocide. Lord Vernon Rodney Cocker laid a wreath at the  monument to the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The delegation then  laid flowers at the Eternal Flame and observed a moment of silence in  memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.

AGMI Director Edita Gzoyan accompanied the guests to the Wall of  Remembrance, behind which, in special niches, are small jars  containing soil taken from the graves of a number of foreign public  figures, politicians, intellectuals, and missionaries who protested  the mass killings and genocide of Armenians committed by the Turkish  government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The guests  listened with great interest to a story about the pro-Armenian  activities of British lawyer, historian, and diplomat James Bryce.