Members of Belgian delegation and EAFJD at the Genocide Memorial Complex in Yerevan.
YEREVAN — Members of the Flemish Parliament (Vlaams Parlement), Ward Kennes (CD&V) and Karim Van Overmeire (N-VA) on Sunday 13 March, 2016 paid a visit to the Memorial of the ‪ ‎Armenian Genocide in Tsitsernakapert, paying homage to the 1.5 million victims of the ‪‎Genocide. They later paid a visit to the Armenian Genocide museum-institute. They were accompanied by two teachers from the Aalst region of Flanders.
Van Overmeire and Kennes are part of an EAFJD led 7-member delegation to ‪‎Armenia, comprised of teachers, academics and politicians from the ‎Dutch speaking Flemish region of ‪‎Belgium and the ‪‎Netherlands. All members of the delegation will be in Armenia on Monday morning, and until Thursday will have meetings with members of the Armenian Parliament, politicians, civil society and educators.
The delegation is also assisted by two members of the Armenian National Committee of Belgium.
National Assembly (NA) of Armenia Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov on Monday received the Delegation of the Belgian and Flemish Parliamentarians, who, after their visit to Armenia, will be in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Sharmazanov highly assessed the role of the Armenian-Belgian and the Armenian-Flemish parliamentarians in the development of the bilateral relations. He expressed confidence that this visit will also be an impetus to further develop and deepen friendly relations.
The NA Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov thanked the vice president of the Flemish Parliament (Senate), Karl Vanlouwe, for taking part in the Armenian Genocide Centennial commemorations and the Global Forum “Against the Crime of Genocideâ€
