Dutch Foreign Minister visits Armenian Genocide Memorial

Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok on Thursday, January 23 visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Panarmenian reports.

Blok was accompanied by Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Avet Adonts and Armenian ambassador to the Netherlands Tigran Balayan.

The delegation was welcomed by AGMI Director Harutyun Marutyan who presented the history and symbolism of the Genocide Monument to the guests.

Blok laid a wreath at the Genocide Monument, while members of the delegation put flowers at the Eternal Fire honoring the memory of the innocent martyrs with a minute of silence.

The guests also visited the Genocide Museum where deputy director of the museum Lusine Abrahamyan presented the museum exhibition and details about the Genocide History.

At the end of the visit Stef Blok left a note in the Memory Book of honorable guests.