Ambassador of Mexico Eduardo Villegas Megías visits Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan

YEREVAN, MARCH 4, ARMENPRESS. Ambassador of Mexico to Armenia Eduardo Villegas Megías visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on March 4. He was accompanied by Nikolai Kostandyan, the Honorary Consul of Mexico in Armenia.

The Armenian Genocide Museum Institute’s curator Hasmik Martirosyan presented to the Ambassador the history of the museum and the history of the three cross-stones commemorating the victims of the anti-Armenian pogroms organized by the Azerbaijani authorities in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku in the end of the previous century, and the stories of the five fallen troops who are buried near the Memory Wall, stressing the connection between these events and the Armenian Genocide.

The ambassador laid flowers at the Eternal Flame and held a moment of silence in honor of the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The ambassador then visited the Armenian Genocide Museum, reviewed the exhibitions and signed the guestbook.