US Deputy Secretary of State Uzra Zeya visited the Genocide Memorial in Armenian accompanied by US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Christina Quinn.

The director of the Genocide Museum-Institute presented the history of the creation of the memorial complex.

Ms. Zeya laid a wreath at the memorial to the victims, then the guests put flowers near the eternal fire and observed a minute of silence in their memory.

The guests from the USA were escorted to Memorial, at the back of which, in special niches, a number of foreign public figures who raised their voice of protest are summarized against the mass massacres of Armenians and the genocide carried out by the Turkish government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries  small jars full of soil taken from the graves of politicians, intellectuals and missionaries. They also presented the history of the Park of Remembrance and noted that the first tree was planted by US Senator Robert Dole in 1997, in memory of Genocide survivor, American-Armenian surgeon Hambar Kelekyan.

The members of the delegation also visited the Genocide Museum, learnt  about  the permanent and temporary exhibitions.

Uzra Zeya made a note in the memorial book of honored guests.