23.01.2025


On January 23, 2025, representatives of the parliaments of Northern Europe and the Baltic countries (Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, and Denmark), including the Speakers of the Parliaments of Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, as well as the Deputy Speakers of the Parliaments of Sweden, Lithuania, and Denmark, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, accompanied by Alen Simonyan, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia.

The delegation was welcomed by Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), who guided the visitors to the Memorial Complex and shared the history of its establishment.

The members of the Northern European and Baltic delegations laid wreaths at the memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide. Afterward, they placed flowers around the Eternal Fire and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent martyrs.

Dr. Gzoyan also guided the visitors to the Memory Wall presenting its history. Behind the wall, in special niches, are small urns filled with soil taken from the graves of various foreign public figures, political leaders, intellectuals, and missionaries who raised their voices in protest against the mass massacres and genocide of Armenians carried out by the Ottoman government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among them are the remains of Norwegian (Fridtjof Nansen, Bodil Bjorn), Danish (Karen Jeppe, Maria Jacobsen), Swedish (Alma Johansson), and Estonian (Hedvig Biul) humanitarians, who played a significant role in documenting the Armenian Genocide, speaking out, and saving thousands of Armenians. Memorial plaques with their names were placed in honor of the gratitude of the Armenian people.