12.09.2025


On 12 September, a delegation led by Brendan H. Henry, Head of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial.

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.

Mr. Henry laid a wreath at the monument honoring the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The delegation also placed flowers at the Eternal Flame and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent victims.

Gzoyan then led the guests to the Memorial Wall, where special niches contain 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. She spoke about the pro-Armenian activities of Henry Morgenthau and Clara Barton, noting that their work helped raise American awareness of the massacres in the Ottoman Empire and that U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide also serves as a tribute to their efforts.

In gratitude for the visit, Director Gzoyan presented Mr. Henry with books on the Armenian Genocide.