YEREVAN. - Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of Russia, Konstantin Kosachev, and the Committee members, who are in Yerevan on a working visit, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex Saturday.

The delegation members were accompanied by the Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Artak Zakaryan, Deputy Chairman of the Committee Alexander Arzumanyan, and Committee  member Shirak Torosyan. The Russian parliamentarians laid a wreath at the Armenian Genocide memorial and also flowers at the eternal fire on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of Russia. They also observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent victims.

For his part, Konstantin Kosachev noted: “By paying tribute to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims, we once again make sure how fragile the peace is, how monstrous the violence is and how horrible the conflicts between peoples are. We must do our best to prevent new tragedies. We stand by Armenian people.”