14.06.2025


On June 13, Silvana Leska Barolin, the newly appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay to Armenia, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial.

The ambassador was welcomed by Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, who accompanied her to the memorial and presented the history of its establishment. The Director also spoke about the three khachkars (cross-stones) at Tsitsernakaberd, erected in memory of Armenians who were victims of massacres organized by the Azerbaijani government in Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku at the end of the last century, as well as the five freedom fighters buried near the Memorial Wall during the Artsakh Liberation War, emphasizing the connection between these events and the Armenian Genocide.

Ms. Leska Barolin laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide. She also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum, where, accompanied by Shushan Khachatryan, head of the Documentation and Research Department on the Armenian Genocide Victims and Survivors at AGMI, she became acquainted with the permanent and temporary exhibitions.

During the visit, the possibilities of deepening cooperation between the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and the Embassy of Uruguay were discussed.