On 29 August, Ana Olivera, the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Uruguvay  and Pedro Khisdonyan,  Vice President of the House of Representatives, visited the  Genocide Memorial in Armenia. Sargis Khandanyan, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly of Eastern Armenia, and Mariam Gevorgyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, accompanied the delegation.

The guests were welcomed by the Deputy Director of the Museum-Institute of the Genocide, Lusine Abrahamyan.  She accompanied the guests to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, introducing the history of the memorial.The deputy director of the KHTI also touched upon the three cross-stones erected in memory of the Armenians killed in the massacres organised by the Azerbaijani government in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), Baku at the end of the last century on the territory of Tsitsernakaberd and the history of five freedom fighters buried in front of Hushapat during the Artsakh war. 

Mrs. Ana Olivera laid a wreath at the  memorial to the victims of the Genocide, then the guests placed flowers near the eternal fire and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent victims of the Genocide committed against Armenians. 

The members of the delegation also visited the Museum of the Genocide against Armenians, got acquainted with the permanent and temporary exhibitions, and then made notes in the memorial book of Honored Guests.

Expressing gratitude for the visit, Lusine Abrahamyan, the deputy director of the museum,  presented Mrs. Ana Olivera the books about the genocide against the Armenians.

In turn, the President of the House of Representatives of Uruguay also presented a book to the Museum of Genocide against Armenians.