President of Iran, Seyed Mohamad Khatami in the Monument of Armenian Genocide

President Of Iran, Seyed Mohammad Khatami
In The Monument Of The Armenian Genocide

Iranian president Seyed Mohammad Khatami

YEREVAN,9th SEPTEMBER 2004.Iranian President Seyed Mohammad Khatami, in the second day of his official visit to Armenia, visited the Memorial Complex Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan and laid a wreath on the Memorial for the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.

Armenia's chief of presidential staff Artashes Tumanian, Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharian, Armenian deputy foreign minister Ruben Shugarian, and other high-ranking officials accompanied Khatami.

The director of the Genocide Museum at Zizernagabert, Lavrenti Barseghian, briefed the Iranian president on the history of the museum, while employees presented him research work on the 1915 Armenian genocide, a map of Armenia, Epos of David of Sasun and a photography album of Mount Ararat.

Talking to journalists, Lavrentiy Barseghyan said that the Iranian leader has become the forth Moslem leader to visit Tsitsernakaberd after the presidents of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon. It is of great importance that the president of such a big country as Iran having friendly relations with us in the South Caucasus visited this place so sacred to every Armenian, Barseghyan said. He expressed hope for recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Iran in the nearest future.