The US delegation arrived in Armenia to examine issues related to security, democracy, economy, said Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi.

Her remarks came on Sunday during a speech at the Cafesjian art center.

Armenia is in the middle of democracy and autocracy, she said adding that the delegation arrived in Armenia to examine issues related to security, democracy, economy. 

Referring to her visit to the Armenian Genocide memorial complex, Nancy Pelosi noted that what they saw today was very emotional.a

"Okay, and then we go on to actually what we saw today.  It was very emotional.  Especially – we came holding our heads up high, because we could come at a time when we had passed – and the President signed – the genocide – the Armenian Genocide resolution.  For a long time, we’ve been talking about it, advocating for it in our communities, in the Congress.  But now, it was done.

And to stand there before the flame, thinking a million and a half people and their families, some of them, the ancestors of so many Armenian Americans, too, that we keep hearing the story of that painful time.  We saw the memorial — it was very moving, what we saw at the museum was beautiful.  It was beautiful," she said.

"To heal those still open wounds, the world must acknowledge the crime for which it was: genocide.  According to [the] 1948 UN Genocide Convention, genocide means ‘acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial [or] religious group.’  We must work to ensure that the truth of the genocide is never covered up.  And we must work to ensure that such atrocities do not happen again.  We must not – never forget," she added.

According to her, the US efforts in the direction of the genocide must continue so that such crimes never happen.

Nancy Pelosi reminded what role the US played in the process of recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

"We reject efforts to enlist, engage and otherwise associate the United States with the denial of the Armenian Genocide, or any other genocide.  That we encourage education and public understanding of the facts of the Armenian genocide, including the relevance of the Armenian Genocide to modern day crimes against humanity.  With this resolution and the U.S. government's formal recognition of the genocide, we commit to affirming Armenia’s history, denouncing violence and bigotry and showing that such an atrocity, again, can never happen again," she added.