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“All of us in Lebanon and Armenia realize that this darkness must be prevented,” Michel Pharaon, Lebanon's State Minister for Planning Affairs, told the reporters at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex.

Today, in the morning, the Lebanese delegation led by Michel Pharaon and accompanied by Armenian Minister of Economic Development and Investments Suren Karayan visited Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, paying tribute to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.

As the Information and Public Relations Department of the Armenian Government told Panorama.am, Michel Pharaon left a note in the Memory Book of Honorable Guests of the Genocide Museum-Institute.

“It is difficult to believe what we saw here, but, unfortunately it is true,” part of the note reads.

“I saw a hope amid all this pain – a hope to live. Everything is different from the distance, but here, seeing this touching images every person in the world must simply accept and recognize the fact of the Armenian Genocide. The most important thing is the recognition itself. I come from a country the people of which faced great sufferings in the same period. All of us in Armenia and Lebanon realize that this darkness must be prevented. Today we must take efforts to stop the bloodshed in all over the world through all the high-level international organizations,” Michel Pharaon told the reporters.