Netherlands Senate speaker deeply shocked by sufferings of Armenian people

YEREVAN. – President of the Senate of the Netherlands, Ankie Broekers-Knol, who is in Armenia on an official visit, on Thursday paid a visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial in capital city Yerevan.

She laid a wreath at the monument to the genocide victims, placed flowers at the Eternal Flame, and paid silent tribute the Holy Martyrs of this tragedy, the National Assembly of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Also, the high-level guest toured the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, and she signed its guestbook.

Speaker of the Dutch senate said this was her first visit to the museum, and she is deeply shocked by the horrible and terrible sufferings which the Armenian people had gone through.