YEREVAN. - Co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee for Armenia, Alan Meale and Giuseppe Galati, on Wednesday visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

They were accompanied by Vice President of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia and head of the NA Delegation to the PACE, Hermine Naghdalyan, the NA informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The high-level European guests placed flowers at the Eternal Flame, and paid silent tribute to—and bowed before—the memory of the Holy Martyrs of this tragedy.

Co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee for Armenia also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, and signed its honorary guestbook.

Meale noted that the atrocities and the genocide which the Turks had committed against Armenians should be condemned by everyone, and the governments should recognize what occurred. He added that people should be informed, genocide should be taught at schools, and we need to do everything so that they will not recur.

In Galati’s view, the Council of Europe does considerable work toward clarifying and stabilizing relations between countries with different religions, in order such tragedies will no longer take place.