“ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” MUSEUM CONSTRUCTION LAUNCHED IN URUGUAY

MilAz.info, Azerbaijan
July 19 2013

14:46 19-07-2013

The construction of “Armenian genocide” museum in Uruguay was launched
on Wednesday July 17, APA reports quoting PANARMENIAN.

The Museum, organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture and
members of the Armenian community, will open on April 24, 2015,
on the genocide centennial anniversary.

Uruguayan Undersecretary of Education, Oscar Gomez, said that the
initiative “ratifies the Uruguayan policy of defense of human rights”.

Gomez recalled that Uruguay was the first country in the world to
recognize the “genocide” in 1965.