A situation that shouldn`t have happened: Zhanna Andreasyan on what  happened at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute

ArmInfo. "I value Ms. Gzoyan (Edita Gzoyan, former director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute - AGMI) as a researcher and her work, and I believe she has every opportunity to continue her scientific work, including  at the Armenian Genocide Museum- Institute," as stated by Zhanna Andreasyan, Minister of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports of Armenia, to reporters, when commenting on the results of a meeting with the AGMI staff the day before.

"And in this sense, I believe our cooperation is not exhausted," she  said. Commenting on the "exit" of the Museum-Institute's director,  the head of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture emphasized  that management is a specific link, entailing specific  responsibilities, and that issues arising in this area must be  addressed. "For me, this matter is closed, as a situation occurred  that should not have happened, and it has been resolved," Andreasyan  noted.

When asked whether the issue of closing the Artsakh-related  department was raised during a meeting with the employees of AGMI,  the minister responded: "They raised various issues related to their  activities. I told them to return to their natural work, to their  scientific research activities; nothing has changed."

Recall, on March 12, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan admitted  in a conversation with journalists that he had "requested"  Edita  Gzoyan's resignation. As the Armenian Prime Minister noted, he  considered Gzoyan's gift of a book about Artsakh to US Vice President  J.D. Vance during his visit to the Museum to be a provocative act  contrary to Armenia's foreign policy.

Following this,  a joint letter from Armenian and international  genocide scholars  was issued regarding the dismissal of the AGMI  director. The letter states that the forced resignation of Edita  Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI),  sends a threatening signal to scholars and historians worldwide: full  investigation and remembrance may be replaced by diplomatic  convenience.