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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. The Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State Victoria Nuland has paid a visit to the Tzitzernakaberd Memorial Complex. The Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum Hayk Demoyan welcomed and accompanied Victoria Nuland and the delegation she led.
As reports “Armenpress”, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State Victoria Nuland, along with the members of the delegation accompanying her, paid a tribute to the memory of 1.5 million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide and placed flowers by the unquenchable fire.
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.