“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.
