02.09.2025


On 2 September, a delegation from the Swedish Riksdag visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial, accompanied by Ruben Rubinyan, Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia, and Vladimir Vardanyan, Chair of the Standing Committee on State-Legal Affairs.

The guests were welcomed by Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, who guided them through the Memorial and shared its history. She also highlighted the three khachkars (cross-stones) on the Tsitsernakaberd grounds commemorating Armenians killed in massacres organized by Azerbaijani authorities at the end of the last century in Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku, as well as the five freedom fighters buried opposite the Memorial Wall during the Artsakh Liberation War, emphasizing the connection between these events and the Armenian Genocide.

The Swedish delegation laid flowers at the Eternal Flame and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent victims.

Gzoyan then led the delegation to the Memorial Wall, where special niches hold small jars of soil taken from the graves of foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals, and missionaries who protested the mass killings and genocide of Armenians at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The visitors showed particular interest in the pro-Armenian activities of Swedish missionary Alma Johansson.

The delegation also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum and viewed its exhibitions.

In gratitude for the visit, Director Gzoyan presented books on the Armenian Genocide to the head of the delegation.