PRESIDENT OF BELGIAN CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES VISITED MEMORIAL TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS

PanARMENIAN.Net - President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives Herman de Croo, who is paying a 2-day call to Armenia at the moment, visited the Memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims. Yerkir online reports. He laid a wreath to the monument and planted a fir sapling on the Alley of Friendship. "We wish constructive and sensible peace to the nations of the South Caucasus. The best way to commemorate the victims is to achieve peace in future", Herman De Croo noted.

He informed that Belgian parliamentarians will visit Georgia and Azerbaijan, which are included in the Wider Europe: New Neighbors program. On occasion of the upcoming 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Director of the Genocide Museum-Institute, Academician Lavrenty Barseghian presented the high rank guest with a medal and books about the crime against humanity. To remind, in 1998 the Belgian Senate adopted a resolution condemning the Genocide and called Turkey to acknowledge the crime committed.