16.09.2025


On 16 September, a delegation from Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment and Nature Conservation visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial.

The guests were welcomed by Lusine Abrahamyan, Deputy Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute for Museum Affairs, who guided them through the Memorial and presented its history. She also highlighted the three khachkars on the Tsitsernakaberd grounds commemorating Armenians killed in massacres organized by Azerbaijani authorities at the end of the last century in Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku, as well as the five freedom fighters buried opposite the Memorial Wall during the Artsakh Liberation War, emphasizing the connection between these events and the Armenian Genocide.

The German delegation laid flowers at the Eternal Flame and observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims.

Abrahamyan then guided the guests to the Memorial Wall, where special niches contain small jars of soil from the graves of foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals, and missionaries who protested the mass killings and genocide of Armenians at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The visitors showed particular interest in the Armenian advocacy of Germans Johannes Lepsius and Armin Wegner.

The delegation also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum, viewing both permanent and temporary exhibitions. Following the visit, the head of the delegation signed the Honorary Guest Book.

As a gesture of gratitude, Abrahamyan presented the delegation with books on the Armenian Genocide.