27.10.2022


Mark Cameron, director of the Office of the Caucasus and Regional Conflicts of the US Department of State, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on October 27.

Edita Gzoyan, AGMI Deputy Scientific Director, welcomed the guests. She told the delegation the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres organised by the Azerbaijani government in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak) and Baku in the last century, as well as the stories of the five freedom fighters who are buried in front of the Memorial Wall, stressing that the events were a continuation of the Armenian Genocide. She also referred to the historical and legal aspects of the Artsakh issue, presenting Azerbaijan's anti-Armenian actions and propaganda.

The guests laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and observed a minute’s silence in memory of the innocent martyrs of the Armenian Genocide.

Edita Gzoyan accompanied the guests to the Memory Wall, the reverse of which holds the relics of those foreign public figures, politicians and missionaries who raised their voices to protest against the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Turkish government.

The American guests also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum and became acquainted with the permanent and temporary exhibitions, after which Mr. Mark Cameron left a note in the Memory Book for Honorable guests.

Expressing her thanks for his visit, Edita Gzoyan, AGMI Deputy Scientific Director, presented Mark Cameron with books about the Armenian Genocide and the Artsakh issue. In his turn, Mark Cameron presented the illustrated book "The 100 Photographs that Changed the World" to the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.