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On November 1 the members of the delegation of the European Parliament led by Milan Cabrnoch, Head of the Delegation, Co-Chair of the RA-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, visited Tsitsernakaberd and laid flowers at the 1915 Armenian Genocide Memorial and paid tribute to memory of more than one and a half million victims, paid silence tribute to memory of one and a half million innocent people.

The deputies of the European Parliament took a tour in the Genocide Museum , got acquainted with the documents ensuring the Armenian Genocide. Milan Cabrnoch, Co-Chair of the Committee, and the Bulgarian deputy Evgeni Kirilov left note in the Commemoration Book. In his note Evgeni Kirilov particularly has noted: “This is one of the tragic exciting pages of the History of the Armenian People. We hope that it will never be repeated in the history.”

Milan Cabrnoch, Co-Chair of the RA-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, in his talk with the journalists noted:

“I am in Armenia for the first time, being in the Genocide Museum I am very impressed and I understand that the Armenian Genocide is one of the important pages of the History of the Armenian People. I am rather informed on the Armenian Genocide, as I was born in former Czechoslovakia . The knowledge of the problem is very important for us: the deputies of the European Parliament, in order we are able to prevent such crimes.”

Slavi Binev, member of the RA-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, member of the European Parliament-Turkey Friendship Group, representing Bulgaria , in his word mentioned: “In the European Parliament we have adopted two declarations on the Armenian Genocide. I believe that we have no right to forget our past, our history; otherwise we won’t have future”.

I believe that in future not only new countries will join the declarations on the Armenian Genocide, but also different NGOs, which will give a big result.”