The dismissal of the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Edita Gzoyan, was due to her initiative during the visit of the US Vice President JD Vance to Armenia.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed that the release application was written under his direct instruction, describing the actions of the museum director as a provocative and contrary to the state’s foreign policy.

During the briefing held in the government on March 12, the Prime Minister detailed that it refers to the visit of the US Vice President to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on February 10. Accompanying the distinguished guest Edita Gzoyan presented him with a book on the Artsakh problem, as well as presented the khachkars perpetuating the memory of the victims of the pogroms in Sumgait, Gandzak and Baku at the end of the last century and the stories of the buried freedom fighters, connecting them with the Armenian Genocide.

By: Nikol Pashinyanin the conditions when the head of the country declares the absence of the Karabakh movement, it is not permissible to present a book to a foreign official on the Artsakh issue.

The head of the government emphasized that the exclusive authority to conduct foreign policy in Armenia belongs to the government, and those government officials whose actions will contradict the official direction will be immediately dismissed from their positions.

Before this announcement by the Prime Minister, the news of Gzoyan’s dismissal was circulated without official clarification from both the museum-institute and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

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