Sylvie Guillaume and François Alfonsi, co-chairmen of the European Parliament's Friendship Group with Artsakh, as well as Attila Ara-Kovacs, Hungarian MP and member of the Friendship Group with Artsakh, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex on February 21.

They were accompanied by ARFD European Office President Gaspar Karapetyan, Office Director Heghineh Evinyan and Special Programs Manager of the Armenian Genocide Central Office Gevorg Ghukasyan.

Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Harutyun Marutyan told the guests the history of the creation of the memorial complex.

He also mentioned about the three cross-stones placed on the territory of Tsitsernakaberd late last year in memory of the Armenians who were victims of the pogroms organized by the Azerbaijani government in Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak) and Baku, and told the story of five freedom fighters buried near the Memorial Plaque during the Artsakh war, emphasizing the connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide.

The members of the European delegation laid flowers at the Eternal Flame and paid tribute with a minute of silence to the memory of one and a half million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Harutyun Marutyan told them about the plaque, in the back of which rest the jars of earth from the graves of a number of foreign public, political figures and missionaries, who raised their voices in protest against the genocide and mass extermination of Armenians by the Turkish government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The guests also visited the Armenian Genocide Museum, toured the permanent and temporary exhibitions under the guidance of senior guide Hasmik Martirosyan, after which they made notes in the memory book of the guests of honor.

Expressing gratitude for the visit, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Harutyun Marutyan handed books on the Armenian Genocide to the members of the delegation.