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On March 16 in the Museum of Genocide Victims of Lithuania officially opened the exhibition entitled: “Armenian Genocide: Front Page Coverage in the World Press”. The exhibits had been provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

The RA NA Deputy Speaker, the Head of Armenia-Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia Parliamentary Friendship Group Eduard Sharmazanov, the RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Baltic countries Ara Ayvazyan, Head of the Group for inter-parliamentary relations with Armenia in the Lithuanian Seimas Dangutė Mikutiene, Group Member for inter-parliamentary relations with Armenia, Head of the Friendship Group with Nagorno Karabakh in the Lithuanian Seimas Dalia Kuodyte , Deputy Head of the Group for inter-parliamentary relations with Armenia Algis Kašėta, Director of the Museum of the Genocide Victims Teresė Birutė Burauskaitė, as well as representatives, historians of national minorities in Lithuania attended the opening of the ceremony.

The RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov, the RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Baltic countries Ara Ayvazyan, Group member for inter-parliamentary relations with Armenia, Head of the Friendship Group with Nagorno Karabakh in the Lithuanian Seimas Dalia Kuodyte, Deputy Head of the Group for inter-parliamentary relations with Armenia Algis Kašėta have come up with speeches at the opening ceremony.

The Deputy Speaker in his word has particularly mentioned that the opening of the exhibition is not pointed against any country, including Turkey, but rather held for the sake of the restoration of historical justice, and international recognition and condemnation of genocides.

He has added that the Armenian Genocide was the first in the 20^th century: one and a half million Armenians were massacred for the only reason that they were Armenians. In the Deputy Speaker’s word, it is the classical example of racism and xenophobia. He has documented that the exhibition presents the European press reaction which is the evidence of the Armenian Genocide occurrence.

The Deputy Speaker has stated that the civilized society should condemn the crime against mankind and for the sake of justice must not let the perpetrators remain unpunished and the genocide successors – uncompensated.