Tsitsernakaberd The Armenian Genocide Memorial complex ( hy, Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հուշահամալիր, ''Hayots tseghaspanutyan zoheri hushahamalir'', or Ծիծեռնակաբերդ, '' Tsitsernakaberd'') is Armenia's official ...

is the official memorial to the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...

victims in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

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. It was opened in 1967 after a

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that took place in Yerevan on April 24, 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople that marked the beginning of the genocide. After Armenia's

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from the

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in 1991, the memorial became a part of official ceremonies. Since then, almost every foreign official who visited Armenia included a visit to the memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the genocide. A visit to Tsitsernakaberd often includes a tour in the nearby museum. Some notable visitors have planted trees at the memorial. A wide range of politicians, artists, musicians, athletes, and religious figures have visited the memorial. The most notable ones include Presidents of Russia (

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

), France (

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), Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Georgia, Iran, Belarus, Romania, Lebanon, Croatia, Serbia, and Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Czech Republic and other countries. Foreign Ministers of many countries (including US Secretary of State

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and several high-ranking officials of the European Union — including

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and Herman Van Rompuy) — have honored the victims by visiting Tsitsernakaberd. Other visitors include Pope

John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

in 2001,

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in 2016, the Chief Rabbi of Israel

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, the Primate of All England

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, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill I of Moscow, World Chess champion

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, World football champion

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, English rock star

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, Serbian filmmaker

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, French actors

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and

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, Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Zhores Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (russian: link=no, Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, ; be, Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 19301 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed signific ...

. No current Turkish state official has visited Tsitsernakaberd.

Significance and controversies

Recognition of the Armenian Genocide Armenian genocide recognition is the formal acceptance that the systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians committed by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, during and after the First World War, constituted genocide. Most hist ...

is one of the most important foreign policy issues of Armenia, and is the number one goal of the diaspora Armenian organizations. Many Armenians look at these visits as a sign of recognition of the genocide.

Pope John Paul II's visit in 2001

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

arrived in Yerevan on September 25, 2001 to participate in the celebrations of 1,700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as the national religion of Armenia. The Pope visited the memorial the next day after meeting with President Robert Kocharyan. He laid a wreath for the victims of the genocide, made a short speech, and read a prayer. The Pope used the term ''Metz Yeghern'' (the Armenian word for genocide, which literally translates as "Great Crime") in his prayer, causing a controversy regarding whether he recognized the events of 1915 as a genocide or not. Nevertheless, it aroused a wave of discontent in Turkey.

Hillary Clinton's visit in 2010

U.S. Secretary of State

arrived in

on July 4, 2010 on America's independence day, thus becoming the highest-ranked American official to visit the country. Her visit was considered "to be symbolic but nonetheless significant" and her possible visit to Tsitsernakaberd became a subject of much discussion in the Armenian media. The United States had not yet recognized the Armenian Genocide officially and by visiting the genocide memorial, many thought that by her visit, the United States sent a clear political message to Turkey. She visited the memorial on July 5, before leaving for

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. The wreath that Clinton laid at the memorial read "From Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton" although it was first announced that her visit would be non-official.

UN GA President, 2022

Abdulla Shahid Abdulla Shahid ( dv, ޢަބްދުﷲ ޝާހިދު; born 26 May 1962) is Maldivian politician who served as President of the 76th United Nations General Assembly between 2021 and 2022. Shahid is the first Maldivian politician to hold that post. ...

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, visited the memorial and the museum on July 27, 2022 and posted pictures of the visit to

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, however he later deleted the post. Turkey's Foreign Ministry stated that Shahid's visit "has been exploited with the purpose of exposing one-sided Armenian claims and it is in that context that he paid a visit to the so-called genocide memorial." Turkey said Shahid "would have been expected to act in a fair and impartial manner, to be more careful and responsible in this regard."

Refusals

Turkish President

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visited Armenia in September 2008 to attend a football match between the Armenian and Turkish national teams in Yerevan. Since the Turkish government denies the fact of genocide, he did not visit the memorial. Other presidents who opted not to pay a visit to Tsitsernakaberd were Syrian President

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and Iranian

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),

. They refused to visit the memorial so as not to compromise their bilateral relationship with neighboring Turkey. In 2010,

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, the Turkish President of the

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(PACE), refused to visit the memorial stating, "it is my own decision. I respect your opinion and you should respect mine."

Politicians

Monarchs

* Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (2011) * King

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(2020)

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(2014) * Mohammad Hamid Ansari (2017)

Prime Ministers

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(1984) as former Prime Minister *

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(2007) *

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(2013) *

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(2014, 2021) *

(2016) *

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(2016) *

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* Gennadiy Seleznyov (1996) *

Christian Poncelet Christian Poncelet (24 March 192811 September 2020) was a conservative French politician. A member of President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),Abd al-Qadir Qaddura Abd al-Qadir Qaddura ( ar, عبد القادر قدورة) was a Syrian politician who was a leading member of the Syria-based wing of the Ba'ath Party, in the era of President Hafez al-Assad (in power 1970–2000). Qaddura served as speaker of th ...

(2001) *

Antje Vollmer Antje Vollmer (born 31 May 1943) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. From 1994 to 2005, she was one of the vice presidents of the German parliament, the ''Bundestag''. Education and early career Vollmer was born in Lübbeck ...

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Artūras Paulauskas Artūras Paulauskas (born 23 August 1953 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician. He was the Speaker of Seimas, the parliament of Lithuania, from 2000 to 2006, and he served as Acting President of Lithuania from 6 April 2004 to 12 July 2004. Ea ...

(2005) * Ingrīda Ūdre (2005) * Vladimir Konoplyov (2005) *

Anne-Marie Lizin Anne-Marie Lizin-Vanderspeeten (5 January 1949 – 17 October 2015) was a Belgian politician, who served as the President of the Senate of Belgium from 2004 to 2007. Political career Her career in politics began as a member of the city council ...

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Herman De Croo Herman Francies Joseph De Croo (born 12 August 1937) is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. First elected in March 1968, he is the longest serving Belgian member of parliament, serving uninterrupted until 2014. He is ...

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Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel ( fa, غلامعلی حداد عادل, born 9 May 1945) is an Iranian philosopher, conservative and principlist politician and former chairman of the Parliament. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Coun ...

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Bogdan Borusewicz Bogdan Michał Borusewicz (; born 11 January 1949) was the Marshal in the Polish Senate from 20 October 2005 to 11 November 2015. Borusewicz was a democratic opposition activist under the Communist regime, a member of the Polish parliament (Sejm) ...

(2006) * Georgi Pirinski (2006) *

David Bakradze Davit Bakradze ( ka, დავით ბაქრაძე) (born 1 July 1972) is a Georgian politician and diplomat who served as the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia from 7 June 2008 to 21 October 2012. Bakradze's previous assignments in ...

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Armand De Decker Armand De Decker (8 October 1948 – 12 June 2019) was a Belgian politician and member of the French-speaking liberal party Mouvement Réformateur (MR). De Decker studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and practised law. He was also ...

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Boris Gryzlov Boris Vyacheslavovich Gryzlov (also spelled Grizlov; russian: Борис Вячеславович Грызлов, ; born December 15, 1950), is a Russian politician. He was Interior Minister from 2001 to 2003 and Speaker of the State Duma (the lo ...

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Luka Bebić Luka Bebić (born 21 August 1937) is a former Croatian politician who served as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 11 January 2008 to 22 December 2011. He is a member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and has been a representative in th ...

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László Kövér László Kövér (; born 29 December 1959) is a Hungarian politician and the current speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary. He was the acting president of Hungary from 2 April 2012 to 10 May 2012, after the resignation of Pál Schmitt. ...

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Volodymyr Lytvyn Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn ( uk, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Литви́н, ; born April 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously s ...

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Nabih Berri Nabih Berri ( ar, نبيه مصطفى بري, translit=Nabīh Muṣṭafā Barriyy, links=hh; born 28 January 1938) is a Lebanese Shia politician who has been serving as Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon since 1992. He heads the Amal Moveme ...

(2011) * Hon Jae Hyon (2012) *

Jorge Orrico Jorge Omar Orrico Miraldi is a Uruguayan Legislator, deputy, actor and lawyer. Biography Jorge Orrico was born 25 October 1946 in Montevideo. Acting career Orrico acted in theatre plays in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He also acted in th ...

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Norbert Lammert Norbert Lammert (born 16 November 1948) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 12th President of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2017. Early life and education The son of a baker, Lammert attended gymnasium ...

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Vangelis Meimarakis Evangelos-Vasileios "Vangelis" Meimarakis ( el, Ευάγγελος-Βασίλειος "Βαγγέλης" Μεϊμαράκης, ; born 14 December 1953), is a Greek lawyer and politician who served as the acting President of New Democracy and Leade ...

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Yiannakis Omirou Yiannakis Omirou ( el, Γιαννάκης Ομήρου; born 18 September 1951) is a Greek-Cypriot politician. He was president of the Cypriot parliament from 2011 to 2016 and was leader of political party EDEK between 2001 and 2015. Omirou w ...

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Davit Usupashvili David Usupashvili ( ka, დავით უსუფაშვილი, ''Davit Usupašvili'') (born March 5, 1968) is a Georgian lawyer and politician who was the chairman of the Parliament of Georgia from 2012 to 2016. He served as the chair ...

(2015) * Mohammad Jihad al-Laham (2015) *

Zoe Konstantopoulou Zoe Konstantopoulou ( el, Ζωή Κωνσταντοπούλου; born 8 December 1976) is a Greek lawyer and politician who served as President of the Hellenic Parliament in 2015, and is currently serving as President of the political party ...

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Sergey Naryshkin Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin ( rus, Серге́й Евге́ньевич Нары́шкин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej jɪˈvɡʲenʲɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈrɨʂkʲɪn; born 27 October 1954) is a Russian politician and businessman who has served as the dir ...

(2012, 2015, 2016) * Jan Hamáček (2015) * Maja Gojković (2016) *

Nancy Pelosi Nancy Patricia Pelosi (; ; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who has served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019 and previously from 2007 to 2011. She has represented in the United States House of ...

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Cabinet ministers

;Ministers of Foreign Affairs *

Ioannis Kasoulidis Ioannis Kasoulides ( el, Ιωάννης Κασουλίδης; born 10 August 1948 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is a Cypriot politician, party member of DISY and current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus. He has served in the same position from 199 ...

(1998) * Eduard Kukan (2000) * Indulis Bērziņš (2001) * Toomas Hendrik Ilves (2001) * Anatoly Zlenko (2001) * Dimitrij Rupel (2002) * Joschka Fischer (2004) * Per Stig Møller (2004) * Philippe Douste-Blazy (2006) *

(2006) * Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2007) * Anna Fotyga (2007) * Artis Pabriks (2007) * Kinga Göncz (2008) * Grigol Vashadze (2009) * Urmas Paet (2009) * Jorge Taiana (2010) * Michael Spindelegger (2010) *

(2010) * Peter Maurer (2010) * Radoslaw Sikorski (2010) * Kostyantyn Hryshchenko (2011) * Yang Jiechi (2011) * Carl Bildt (2011) * Jonas Gahr Støre (2011) * Guido Westerwelle (2012) * Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis (2012) * Erkki Tuomioja (2012) * Audronius Ažubalis (2012) * Sergei Martynov (politician), Sergei Martynov (2012) * Luis Almagro (2012) * Jean Asselborn (2012) * Edgars Rinkēvičs (2012) * Miroslav Lajčák (2013) * Igor Lukšić (2013) * Hoshyar Zebari (2013) * Karel Schwarzenberg (2008, 2013) * Ivan Mrkić (2014) * Sebastian Kurz (2014) * Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2014) * Linas Linkevičius (2014) * Sergey Lavrov (2007, 2012, 2014, 2021) * Gebran Bassil (2015) * Héctor Marcos Timerman (2012, 2015) * Didier Reynders (2015) * Lubomír Zaorálek (2015) * Margot Wallström (2016) * Mikheil Janelidze (2016) * Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (2017) * Henry Rabary-Njaka (2018) * Louise Mushikiwabo (2018) * Régis Immongault Tatangani (2018) * Taro Kono (2018) * Stef Blok (2020) * Nikos Dendias (2020) * Ivan Korčok (2021) * S. Jaishankar (2021) * Alexander Schallenberg (2022) * Luigi Di Maio (2022) * Anniken Huitfeldt (2022) ;Other ministers * Živadin Jovanović, Deputy Foreign Minister (1995) * Igor Sergeyev, Minister of Defence (1998) * Georgy Boos, Minister of Taxes and Levies (1999) * Nawaf Massalha, Deputy Foreign Minister (2000) * Sebouh Hovnanian, Minister of Youth and Culture (2001) * Gediminas Kirkilas, Minister of National Defense (2005) * Joe Hockey, Minister for Human Services (2005) * Sergei Ivanov, Sergey Ivanov, Minister of Defence (2006) * Christian Estrosi, Territorial Minister (2007) * Teodor Melescanu, Defense Minister (2007) * Alexander Radkov, Minister of Education (2007) * Andrei Fursenko, Minister of Education and Science (2007) * Abdujabbor Rahmanov, Minister of Education (2007) * Juozas Olekas, Minister of National Defense (2007) * Štefan Harabin, Minister of Justice (2008) * Pavel Grachov, former Defence Minister (2008) * Ghia Nodia, Minister of Education and Science (2008) * Vladimir Matvichuk, Minister of Culture (2008) * Marek Maďarič, Minister of Culture (2008) * Bogdan Klich, National Defense Minister (2009) * Patrick Devedjian, Minister of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan (2010) * Dimitri Shashkini, Minister of Education and Science (2010) * Henri de Raincourt, Minister of Co-operation (2011) * Orit Noked, Minister of Agriculture (2012) * Cornelia Pieper, Minister of State (2012) * Rasa Juknevičienė, Minister of National Defense (2012) * Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Diaspora Affairs Minister (2012) * Giampaolo Di Paola, Minister of Defence (2012) * Sergey Shoygu, Minister of Defense (2013) * Paban Singh Ghatowar, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (2013) * Dimitris Avramopoulos, Minister of National Defense (2013) * Rowsch Shaways, Deputy Prime Minister (2013) * Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development (2014) * David Lidington, Minister of State for Europe (2014) * Alexander Chikaidze, Minister of Internal Affairs (2014) * Juozas Bernatonis, Minister of Justice (2015) * Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi, Minister of Transport (2015) * Arthur Nazarian, Minister of Energy (2015) * Elias Bou Saab, Minister of Education (2015) * Chris Alexander (politician), Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (2015) * :de:José Luis Cancela, José Luis Cancela, Deputy Foreign Minister (2015) * Christoforos Fokaides, Minister of Defence (2015) * Michaela Marksová-Tominová, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (2015) * Giorgi Mgerbishvilli, Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance (2015) * Tea Tsulukiani, Minister of Justice (2015) * Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Oweis, Minister of Health (2015) * Michael Roth (politician), Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe (2015) * Tinatin Khidasheli, Minister of Defence (2016) * Tzachi Hanegbi, Regional Cooperation Minister of Israel, Regional Cooperation Minister (2017) * Juma Anad, Defense Minister (2021)

Other government officials

* Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, Alexander Yakovlev, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Politburo (1988) * Alexander Lebed, former Secretary of the Russian Federation Council (1997) * Stephen Sestanovich, Adviser on newly independent states to the Secretary of State (1999) * Jamil Al Sayyed, General Security Directorate (2001) * Anatoly Kvashnin, Chief of the Russian General Staff (2001) * Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the Federation Council (2002) * Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2005) * Xu Jialu, Vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress * Dimitrios Grapsas, Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (2007) * Vladimir Sergeyevich Mikhaylov, Commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force (2007) * Umberto Ranieri, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2007) * Vladimir Churov, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (2008) * Tod Bunting, Adjutant General of Kansas (2008) * Gunārs Kūtris, President of the Constitutional Court (2008) * Jan Kasal, Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies (2008) * Frangos Frangoulis, Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (2010) * Micha Lindenstrauss, State Comptroller and Ombudsman (2010) * Marie L. Yovanovitch, U.S. Ambassador in Armenia (2010) * Vojtěch Filip, Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies (2010) * Valentina Matviyenko, Chairman of the Federation Council (2012) * John A. Heffern, U.S. Ambassador in Armenia (2012) * Wolfgang Thierse, Vice-President of the Bundestag (2012) * Viktor Guminsky, Deputy Speaker of the Belorussian Parliament * Cao Jianming, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (2012) * Marie Ficarra, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * Amanda Fazio, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * David Clarke (Australian politician), David Clarke, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * Fred Nile, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * Shaoquett Moselmane, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * Gladys Berejiklian, Minister for Transport (New South Wales), Minister for Transport of New South Wales (2013) * Ali Fahad Al-Rashid, head of the foreign affairs committee of the National Assembly (Kuwait), National Assembly (2013) * Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper, Baroness Gloria Hooper, Deputy Speaker and life peer of the House of Lords (2014) * Richard Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Worcester, Baron Faulkner of Worcester, Deputy Speaker and life peer of the House of Lords (2014) * Anna Azari, Head of Eurasia Division of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2014) * Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2015) * Evelyn Farkas, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Eurasia (2015) * Cem Özdemir, Co-chairman of the Alliance '90/The Greens, Green Party (2015) * Andrey Belyaninov, Head of Federal Customs Service of Russia, Federal Customs Service (2015) * Norma Abdala de Matarazzo, First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies (2015) * Jacob Lew, United States Secretary of the Treasury (2015) * Krasimir Karakachanov, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (2015) * Zdeněk Škromach, Vice-President of the Senate (2015) * Esabelle Dingizian, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament (2015) * :es:Denise Pascal, Denise Pascal, Vice President of Parliament (2015) * Manana Kobakhidze, First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament (2015) * Carmen Bendovski, former counselor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2015) * Pavel Rychetský, president of the Czech Constitutional Court (2015) * Harlem Désir, Secretary of State for European Affairs (2015) * Annick Girardin, Secretary of State for Development (2016) * Felipe Alejos Lorenzana, First Vice President of Guatemala (2019)

Members of Parliament

; U.S. Senators *Jack Reed (politician), Jack Reed (D-RI) (1997) *Bob Dole (R-KS) (1997) *Dick Durbin (D-IL) (2012) ; U.S. Congressmen *Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-MA) (1993) *Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) (1997) *Frank Pallone (D-NJ) (1997) *Dick Gephardt (D-MO) (1998) *James Rogan (R-CA) (1999) *Connie Morella (R-MD) (1999) *Pete Visclosky (D-IN) (2004) *Joseph Crowley (D-NY) (2007) *Adam Schiff (D-CA) (2008) *Devin Nunes (R-CA) (2012) *Ed Royce (R-CA) (2014) *Elliot Engel (D-NY) (2014) *David Cicilline (D-RI) (2014) *Lois Frankel (D-FL) (2014) *Jackie Speier (D-CA) (2015) *Anna Eshoo (D-CA) (2015) *Dave Trott (politician), David Trott (R-MI) (2015) *Frank Pallone (D-NJ) (2015) ; Member of the European Parliament (MEPs) *Pia Locatelli, Italy (2007) *Tomasz Poręba, Poland (2010) *Slavcho Binev, Bulgaria (2011) *Evgeni Kirilov, Bulgaria (2011) *Libor Rouček, Czech Republic (2011) *Milan Cabrnoch, Czech Republic (2011) *Laima Andrikienė, Lithuania (2012) *Martin Callanan, UK (2013) *Tatjana Ždanoka, Latvia (2015) *Jaromír Štětina, Czech Republic (2015) *Heidi Hautala, Finland (2015) *Ryszard Czarnecki, Poland (2014, 2015) ;Other * Yossi Sarid (2005) * François Roelants du Vivier (2006) * Georges Colombier (2006) * Margherita Boniver (2007) * Leoluca Orlando (2007) * :it:Raffaello De Brasi, Raffaello De Brasi (2007) * Christine Egerszegi (2008) * Arsalan Fathipour (2009) * Serge Lagauche (2010) * Caroline Cox (2011) * Nah Youn Mi (2012) * Sophie Joissains (2012) * Bernard Fournier (2012) * Philippe Marini (2012) * Leonid Slutsky (politician), Leonid Slutsky (2014) * Dana Reizniece-Ozola (2013) * Andrejs Klementjevs (2013) * Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (2013) * Stéphane Dion (2013) * Valérie Boyer (2013) * Guy Teissier (2013) * Hassan Ayed Bukhamas (2013) * Stephen Pound (2014) * John Whittingdale (2014) * Mike Gapes (2014) * Brad Butt (2014) * Leon Benoit (2014) * Russ Hiebert (2014) * Zuzka Bebarová-Rujbrová (2014) * Bruno Le Roux (2014) * René Rouquet (2013, 2014) * Nikolai Ryzhkov (2014) * Ekin Deligöz (2015) * Nachman Shai (2015) * Anat Berko (2015) * Giorgos Varnava (2015) * Marios Garoyian (2015) * Eleni Theocharous (2014, 2015) * Karl Vanlouwe (2015) * Gundars Daudze (2015) * Harold Albrecht (2010, 2015) * Harry van Bommel (2015) * Noh Young-min (2015) * :de:Hannes Weninger (Politiker), Hannes Weninger (2015) * :fr:Julie de Groote, Julie de Groote (2015) * :fr:Fatoumata Sidibé, Fatoumata Sidibé (2015) * :fr:André du Bus de Warnaffe, André du Bus de Warnaffe (2015) * :fr:Hervé Doyen, Hervé Doyen (2015) * :fr:Simone Susskind, Simone Susskind (2015) * Vanessa Matz (2015) * Karim Van Overmeire (2015) * László Borbély (2015) * Mark Pritchard (politician), Mark Pritchard (2016) * Tali Ploskov (2016) * Sergejs Potapkins (2016) * Liana Kanelli (2016) * Kenneth G. Forslund (2017)

Regional and local

;U.S. State legislature (United States), State legislature and City Council members *Paul Krekorian, Los Angeles City Councilman (2004 and 2013) *John Pérez, Speaker of the California State Assembly (2013) *Katcho Achadjian, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) *Cheryl Brown, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) *Adrin Nazarian, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) *Scott Wilk, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) *Bob Blumenfield, Los Angeles City Councilman (2013) ;Governors *Boris Gromov, Governor of Moscow Oblast (2008) *Georgy Boos, Governor of Kaliningrad (2009) *Georgy Poltavchenko, Governor of Saint Petersburg (2015) ;Mayors *Gürbüz Çapan — Esenyurt, Istanbul Province, Turkey (1995) *Yury Luzhkov — Moscow, Russia (2003, 2005) *Jacques Peyrat — Nice, France (2007) *Jean-Claude Gaudin — Marseille, France (2007, 2013) *Gérald Tremblay — Montreal, Canada (2010, 2011) *Bertrand Delanoë — Paris, France (2011) *Osman Baydemir — Diyarbakır, Turkey (2014) *Maysar Haji Salih — Shangal, Iraq (2015) *Delegation of twelve mayors from Germany (2015) *Bekir Kaya - Van, Turkey, Van, Turkey (2015) *Huseyin Olan - Bitlis, Turkey (2015) *Ozcan Birlik - Mutki, Turkey (2015) *Mehmet Emin Özkan - Güroymak, Turkey (2015) *Avtandil Nemsitsveridze - Mtskheta, Georgia (2015) *Anne Hidalgo - Paris, France (2016)

Leaders or delegations from international organizations

* René van der Linden, President of the

(2005) * Vladimir Rushailo, Executive Secretary of Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS (2005, 2007) * Terry Davis (politician), Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2007) * Kōichirō Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO (2008) * Wilfried Martens, President of the European People's Party (2010) * Abdou Diouf, Secretary General of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (2010) * Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2010) * Petros Efthymiou, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (2011) * Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament (2011) * Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2013) * Herwig van Staa, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (2013) * Yuri Fedotov, Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2013) * Majed el-Shafie, President and founder of One Free World International (2014) * Delegation from the All-China Women's Federation (2014) * Delegation from the European Jewish Parliament (2014) * :fr:Jean-Paul Wahl, Jean-Paul Wahl, European Regional Head of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie (2015) * Anne Brasseur, President of the

(2015) * Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (2015) * Delegation from the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) (2015) * Nikolay Bordyuzha, General Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (2015) * Joseph Daul, President of the European People's Party (2015) * Members of the Executive Bureau of the Democrat Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC) (2015) * Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva (2015) * Delegation from the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2015) * Delegation from the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2015) * Michaëlle Jean, Secretary General of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (2015, 2018) * Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2022) *

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European Union

* Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council (2012) *

, President of the European Commission (2012) *

, President of the European Council (2015) *

, President of the European Council (2021)

Religious figures

*Konrad Raiser, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (1996) * Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1996) *

(2001) * Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (2003) * Stephen Blaire, Bishop of Stockton (2003) * Robert Edward Mulvee, Bishop of Providence, RI (2003) * Basil H. Losten, Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2003) * Nicholas Samra, Auxiliary of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, MA (2003) * John Joseph Nevins, Bishop of Venice, FL (2003) * Howard James Hubbard, Bishop of Albany, NY (2003) * William Henry Keeler, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore (2003) *

, Chief Rabbi of Israel (2005) * Danny Rich (rabbi), Danny Rich, Chief Executive of Liberal Judaism (2007) *

, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England (2007) * Cardinal Bertone, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church and Secretary of State of The Vatican (2008) * Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (2010) * Mir Tahsin Beg, religious leader of the Yazidis (2012) * Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2015) * Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church (2014) * Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (2011, 2014) * Helga Haugland Byfuglien, Bishop of the Church of Norway (2015) * Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Maronite Church (2015) * Kurt Koch, Swiss cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2015) * John X of Antioch, John X, Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East (2015) * Pope Tawadros II, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (2015) * Christopher Hill (bishop), Christopher Hill, retired British bishop and president of the Conference of European Churches (2015) * Richard Chartres, Bishop of London (2015) * Robert Innes (bishop), Robert Innes, Bishop in Europe (2015) * Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (2015) *

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Other notables

*Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film-maker (1972) *

, English rock singer (1990, 2009) *Cher, Armenian-American singer and songwriter (1993) *Oral Çalışlar, Turkish journalist and writer (1995) *Cengiz Çandar, Turkish journalist and a former war correspondent (1995) *Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (1997) *Thomas de Waal, British journalist and author (2000) *Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (2001) *Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (2001) *John Welty, President of California State University, Fresno (2004) *Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist assassinated in 2007 (2004) *Paulo Coelho, Brazilian novelist (2004) *Murat Belge, Turkish columnist and academic (2005) *Yehuda Bauer, Israeli historian, scholar of the Holocaust (2005) *Taner Akçam, Turkish historian and sociologist (1995, 2005) *

, French football/soccer player, World and European champion (2006) *Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach (2006) *

, Russian World Chess champion (2007) *Hasan Cemal, writer, journalist and grandson of Djemal Pasha, one of the main perpetrators of the genocide (2008) *Tony Iommi, English guitarist (2009) *Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (2009) *Pat Cash, Australian professional tennis player (2009) *Israel Charny, Israeli genocide scholar (2005, 2010) *Vahakn Dadrian, Genocide scholar (2010) *Yves Ternon, French historian (2010) *Leandro Despouy, Argentinian human rights lawyer (2010) *William Schabas, Canadian academic (2010) *

, Serb filmmaker (2010, 2015) *Alexei Leonov, Soviet astronaut, the first human to conduct a space walk (2010) *Serj Tankian, Armenian-American rock singer (2010) *

, French actor (2010) *

, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics (2011) *Steve Wozniak, American computer engineer, co-founder of Apple, Inc. (2011) *Arsen Galstyan, Armenian-born Russian Olympic champion in judo (2012) *Uğur Üngör, Turkish historian (2012) *

, French actor (2012) *Anna Chapman, Russian intelligence agent (2013) *Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera singer (2013) *Sait Çetinoğlu, Turkish historian (2013, 2016) *Joseph Kobzon, Russian singer (2013) *Mario Mazzola, Chief Development Officer at Cisco Systems (2014) *İsmail Beşikçi, Turkish scholar and candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize (2014) *Fatih Akın, Turkish-German film director (2015) *Mardik Martin, American screenwriter (2015) *Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist (2015) *Kim Kardashian, Armenian-American television personality (2015) *Khloe Kardashian, Armenian-American television personality (2015) *Kanye West, American rapper and record producer (2015) *Charlie Armstrong, American jazz singer (2015) *Daniel Decker, American singer and composer (2015) *Dima Bilan, Russian singer (2016) *Arthur Abraham, German-Armenian professional boxer (2015) *Maria Guleghina, Russian soprano opera singer (2015) *Esther Mujawayo, Rwandan author and Rwandan genocide survivor (2015) *Vic Darchinyan, Australian-Armenian professional boxer (2015) *Richard Hovannisian, Armenian-American historian (2015) *Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute (2015) *André Manoukian, French-Armenian jazz musician (2015) *Cengiz Aktar, Turkish journalist and writer (2015) *Matthias Bjornlund, Danish historian (2015) *Ronda Rousey, American martial artist and Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC champion fighter (2015) *Gegard Mousasi, Dutch mixed martial artist and UFC fighter (2015) *Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder and executive chairman of reddit (2015) *Conan O'Brien, American television host, comedian (2015) *Kemal Yalçın, Turkish writer (2015) *Anatoly Torkunov, rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (2015) *Eugene Kaspersky, Russian information specialist and CEO of Kaspersky Lab (2015) *Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2016) *Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, former judge and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2016) *Syeda Ghulam Fatima, Pakistani human and labour rights activist (2016) *Marguerite Barankitse, Burundian human rights activist (2016) *Hina Jilani, Pakistani human rights activist (2016) *John Prendergast (activist), John Prendergast, American human rights activist and founding member of Enough Project (2016) *Residente, Puerto Rican musician (2016) *Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer (2015, 2016) *George Clooney, American actor (2016) *Matthew Festing, Prince of the Church, Prince and Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (2016) *Dean Cain, American actor (2017) *Montel Williams, American television personality (2017) *John Malkovich, American actor and director (2017) *Tom Catena, American physician (2018) *Dan Bilzerian, Armenian-American Internet personality and gambler (2018) *Gene D. Block, American biologist, inventor, and chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (2018) *David Geffen, American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist (2018) *Eric Esrailian, Armenian-American film producer (2018) *Terry George, Irish screenwriter and director (2018) *Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal lawyer and former mayor of New York City (2018) *Kourtney Kardashian, Armenian-American television personality (2019) *Prince Radu of Romania (2019) *Éric Zemmour (2021), 2022 French presidential election candidate *Ardem Patapoutian, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2022)

References

{{Armenian Genocide Armenian genocide commemoration Museums in Yerevan

Significance and controversies

Pope John Paul II's visit in 2001

Hillary Clinton's visit in 2010

UN GA President, 2022

Refusals

Politicians

Monarchs

Presidents

Vice-Presidents

Prime Ministers

Speakers

Cabinet ministers

Other government officials

Members of Parliament

Regional and local

Leaders or delegations from international organizations

European Union

Religious figures

Other notables

See also

References