Today, the ASPU summarized the exceptional international conference on the subject “Theoretical and Practical Problems of Development of a Transforming Society”.
After the official closing ceremony of the conference the world-famous and renowned scientists decided to visit the Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran / Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts/ before leaving Armenia.
In the largest Armenian manuscripts repository the foreign guests got familiar with the ancient Armenian manuscripts, archived documents and earliest books.
Impressed of the material at the scientific-cultural center, the guests also paid a visit to the Tsitsernakaberd memorial.
The University Chancellor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Rouben Mirzakhanyan, in the name of the Armenian State Pedagogical University, laid a wreath in the memory of the innocent victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, then, together with the guest, he held a minute of silence to honour the Genocide victims near the Eternal Flame.
The foreign scientists also visited the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.
The photos in the display-desks, together with the witnesses’ testimonies and other relevant document told them about the massacres and atrocities made by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian nation.
After watching the documentary videos about the Armenian Genocide, the President of the European Association of Psychology and Law of the Glasgow Caledonian University said, “I am extremely affected by this Memorial and I am very sorry that my generation as well as the new generation knows very little about the Armenian Genocide. After getting to know your history and your nation closer, I hope that in near future more and more counties will recognize the first genocide of the 20th century.”
Likewise, the Doctor of Psychology, the Paris Diderot University Professor François Neau was also impressed by what he saw. “It’s already the second time I’ve been in this museum, and still the same shiver goes through my body. It is the duty of each of us to tell and once again remind the world about the Armenian Genocide. I think education is the only hope to get civilized, and this conference will remind of and help to struggle against genocides,” the Doctor of Psychology concluded.
