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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan pays tribute to memory of Armenian Genocide victims at Tsitsernakaberd

24.04.2022

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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan together with the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan, the Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan and top leadership of the country visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on the occasion of the Genocide Remembrance Day to pay tribute to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.

Nikol Pashinyan laid a wreath at the monument, and flowers at the Eternal Flame eternalizing the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Afterwards, the Prime Minister visited the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, got acquainted with the materials presented at the exhibition "Following in the footsteps of Armenian schools. Certificates of the Educated Nation”.

The exhibition presents the once prosperous activities of about 2,000 Armenian schools in Western Armenia, Cilicia, and the Armenian-populated areas of the Ottoman Empire, which were interrupted by the Armenian Genocide.

The sixteen bilingual (Armenian and English) temporary exhibition stands present thirty original graduation certificates, photographs, textbooks, and other school-related items.

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