The Buenos Aires City Council has given the green light to the construction of an Armenian Genocide Museum in the Argentine capital, Asbarez reported citing Estação Armênia.

The museum will be built by the Armenian Genocide Memorial Foundation, and on Gurruchaga Street, very close to heart of the Armenian community in the suburb of Palermo.

An archive of the history of the Armenian presence in Argentina, as well as a library and archive of Armenian Genocide are also expected to be created within the framework of this museum.

Argentina was one of the first countries to recognize the Armenian Genocide. In 1987, Argentina’s then President Raúl Alfonsín described the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, between 1915 and 1923, as genocide.

And in 2007, Argentina declared April 24 as “Day of action for tolerance and respect among peoples” in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.