YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, ARMENPRESS. The Transport Minister of Iraq Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi, who has paid an official visit to the Republic of Armenia, visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial.

The Public Relations Department of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute informed “Armenpress” that the Minister of Transport of Iraq Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi laid a wreath at the monument. The Iraqi guests were by the unquenchable fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.