DMITRY MEDVEDEV PAYS HOMAGE TO THE MEMORY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS

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21.10.2008 13:23

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev today visited
Tsitsernakaberd and laid a wreath at the memorial to the Armenian
Genocide victims. Dmitry Medvedev was accompanied by the Foreign
Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, the First Deputy Mayor of
Yerevan, Kamo Areyan, the Armenian and Russian Ambassadors Nikolay
Pavlov and Armen Smbatyan, members of the Russian delegation.

The President of Russia later visited the Armenian Genocide Museum
Institute, where the Director of AGMI Hayk Demoyan presented the
history of the Armenian Genocide, the mechanisms of its perpetration
and the cultural and demographic losses the Armenian nation and the
whole humanity suffered.

Mr. Medvedev left a note in the Memorial Book.

"The Armenian Genocide Museum and the Memorial are evidences of the
horrible tragedy of the 20th century. It simultaneously reminds that
life is the supreme value that civilized peoples preserve."

Hayk Demoyan awarded Dmiry Medvedev with a "Gold Medal" of the AGMI.

The President of Russia planted a tree in memory of the victims of
the 1915 genocide.