Armenian Foreign Ministry representatives pay tribute to memory of innocent victims of genocides

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. On the occasion of the International day of the Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Paruyr Hovhannisyan, the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry Boris Sahakyan and other high-ranking diplomats visited today the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to pay tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust and the Yazidi Genocidesthe ministry reports.

The International day of the Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime was declared in 2015 by the UN on the initiative of Armenia. The primary goal of the day is the fight against genocide, reminding people about the irreversible loss of the humanity caused by genocide.