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Politicians, public figures, citizens of Armenia laid flowers today, on January 27, at the Monument to the Holocaust Victims in Yerevan.

The fight against genocides should have a prominent place on the global agenda, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the Armenian National Assembly Artak Zakaryan told Panorama.am. 

“We must struggle to ensure that crimes against ethnic minorities are never committed again,” the Armenian MP said.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews, 2 million Gipsies, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and 9,000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session. The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January 2005 during which the United Nations General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust.