YEREVAN. – A delegation led by Jan Bauer, the Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, on Friday visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in capital city Yerevan. 

The Czech MPs laid a wreath and placed flowers to the monument and paid tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the Genocide.

They also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

“Thank you, that I could be in this museum. It is sad and tragic. We can learn lessons. I am very sad that you have had such tragic past,” Bauer wrote in the guestbook of the museum-institute.         

The head of the European Affairs Committee of the Czech Parliament also responded to the journalists’ questions. 

Noting that he is in Armenia for the first time, he said: “What we have witnessed here is quite touching.”  

To the query as to what needs to be done to prevent genocides, Jan Bauer responded as follows:  

“The Czech Republic is a European Union member state, and we are dealing with this matter. We need to learn lessons so that such incidents do not repeat.”