20.09.2025


On 20 September, the Delegation of the French Army’s Land Forces for Culture and Monument Preservation paid an official visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex.

The guests were welcomed by Dr. Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, who accompanied them to the memorial and outlined the history of its creation. Dr. Gzoyan also spoke about the three khachkars (cross-stones) commemorating Armenians killed in the massacres organized by the Azerbaijani government in Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak) and Baku at the end of the last century, as well as about five freedom fighters from the Artsakh Liberation War buried opposite the Memorial Wall. She emphasized the links between those events and the Armenian Genocide.

At the Eternal Flame, the delegation honored the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide with a minute of silence.

Dr. Gzoyan then led the visitors to the Memorial Wall, where small urns containing soil from the graves of foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals and missionaries are placed in special niches. These individuals, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, raised their voices in protest against the mass massacres and genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman authorities against the Armenians. The delegation showed particular interest in the accounts of Anatole France and Admiral Dartige du Fournet’s pro-Armenian activities.

The visit concluded with a tour of the Armenian Genocide Museum, where the guests, guided by AGMI tour guide Hasmik Martirosyan, viewed the permanent and temporary exhibitions.