YEREVAN, APRIL 22, ARMENPRESS. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, accompanied by the Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. “Armenpress” reports, the Russia Foreign Minister laid a wreath at the memorial, laid flowers at the Eternal Flame paying tribute to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

The Director of the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide Hayk Demoyan accompanied Lavrov to the Museum-Institute where he left the following note in the Commemoration Book of Honorable guests: “Thank you for all who keep this memory and do everything not to forget the tragedy of the Armenian people. And we should do every possible step to not let such things repeat”. Lavrov watered the tree planted by him in 2007 in the Alley of Tsitsernakaberd.

Russian Foreign Minister’s visit is being released by a number of Russian news agencies.

Russian State Duma adopted a resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide on April 14, 1995.

The Resolution reads:
“Based on irrefutable historic facts which attest to the extermination of Armenians on the territory of Western Armenia from 1915 to 1922 and, in accordance with the following Conventions adopted by the United Nations:
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948;
Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, November 26, 1968;
Aspiring to restore the humanitarian traditions of the Russian State and,
Emphasizing that through the initiative of Russia, the Great European Powers already in 1915 characterized the actions of the Turkish Empire against the Armenian people as a "Crime Against Humanity" and,
Noting that the physical extermination of the fraternal Armenian people in its historic homeland aimed at destroying Russia;
The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation:
Condemns the perpetrators of the extermination of Armenians from 1915 to 1922;
Expresses its deep sympathy to the Armenian people and recognizes April 24 as a day of remembrance for the victims of the Genocide”.

Photos by Eduard Sepetchyan