Swiss MFA delegation visits Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex

ArmInfo.  Pierre-Yves Fux, Head of the Eurasian Division at the Swiss Federal Department of  Foreign Affairs, visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to the  Victims of the Armenian Genocide. Fux is in Yerevan to hold  consultations between the Foreign Ministries of Armenia and  Switzerland. Fux was accompanied by Andrea Barbara Baumann,  Ambassador of Switzerland to Armenia.

According to the press service of the Armenian Genocide  Museum-Institute, the guests were greeted and escorted to the  memorial complex by Hrachya Tashchyan, Acting Director of the  Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, The guests laid flowers at the  eternal flame and honored the memory of the innocent martyrs with a  minute of silence.

They also visited the Armenian Genocide Museum, where they viewed the  permanent and temporary exhibitions. At the end of his visit,  Pierre-Yves Fuchs made a note in the Memory Book of Honorable Quests.

The Swiss National Council (parliament) officially recognized the  Armenian Genocide on December 16, 2003, adopting a resolution  condemning the 1915massacres. Switzerland has also criminalized  genocide denial, making it a criminal offense to publicly deny this  historical fact.