On April 14, Minister Plenipotentiary for European Affairs of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, Benjamin Hadad, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Museum.
Benjamin Haddad laid a wreath on the wall of the memorial complex, then the members of the delegation placed flowers near the eternal fire, and honored the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide with a minute of silence. The delegation toured the area of the memorial complex, at the suggestion of the French Ambassador to Armenia, Olivier Dkotinyin, approached Hushapat, at the back of which, in special niches, there are filled with soil taken from the graves of a number of foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals and missionaries who raised their voice of protest against the mass massacres of Armenians and genocide carried out by the Turkish government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. small jugs. Guests stop were taken near the memorial stones of Anatole France and Louis Dartiges du Fournay.
Then the delegation visited the Armenian Genocide Museum, Benjamin Haddad made a note in the memorial book of the honored guests, then walked around the last hall of the museum, the open-air inner courtyard, on the basalt wall, which is divided into twelve equal parts, the words of outstanding statesmen, diplomats, scientists, and writers condemning the Armenian Genocide are engraved.
At the end, Hrachya Tashchyan, acting director of the Armenian Genocide, presented Hadad with a French picture book of the Armenian Genocide and Raymond Gevorgyan’s booklet.
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