JD Vance visits Armenian Genocide Memorial

U.S. Vice President JD Vance, accompanied by his wife Usha Vance, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan as part his official visit to Armenia on Tuesday.

Vance was welcomed by Armenia’s Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires David Allen and Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, who guided the couple through the memorial complex and explained its history.

The vice president laid a wreath at the monument commemorating the victims of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, before he and his wife placed flowers at the Eternal Flame and observed a minute of silence.

In remarks written in the museum’s guest book, Vance said: “In solemn remembrance to the lives lost, we honor the resilience and enduring spirit of the Armenian people. May America and Armenia strive for a future of peace and understanding together.”

The museum director presented Vance with books on the Armenian Genocide and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the conclusion of the visit.