AGMI director dismissed after raising Artsakh issue at meeting with  U.S. vice-president, AGMI ex-director claims 

ArmInfo. The director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) is set to be fired after she spoke to US Vice President J.D.  Vance about the ethnic cleansing and genocide committed against the Artsakh population in September 2023.

Former AGMI Director Hayk Demoyan, in a post on his Facebook page,  suggested that the topics Gzoyan raised during Vance's visit  displeased Armenian Minister of Education, Science, Culture, and  Sports (MSCS), Zhanna Andresyan, who, according to rumors, demanded  Gzoyan resign. Demoyan reported that, according to recent news, a new  director will soon be appointed, and expressed his conviction that  the new leadership's main responsibility will be to conceal numerous  crimes and to fail to respond to the unprecedented statements made by  high-ranking Armenian officials regarding the historical fact of the  Armenian Genocide.

"Apparently, the newly appointed director will be prohibited from  speaking publicly on this topic or making undesirable statements,  especially during ceremonial visits by foreign officials.  Furthermore, he will be required to sign a written pledge not to use  words and phrases such as 'Artsakh,' 'ethnic cleansing,' or 'cultural  genocide,' so as not to jeopardize his ability to receive a salary  from a government that questions the fact of the Genocide," Demoyan  believes.

He also said that AGMI employees had appealed to Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan to reconsider the position of the head of the Ministry of  Education, Science, Culture and Sports regarding Gzoyan's dismissal.  The former director of AGMI complained that the museum staff had  essentially addressed a letter to someone who questions the fact of  the Armenian Genocide and makes statements denying his involvement in  what happened in Artsakh. "I believe that AGMI employees should have  sent a letter of protest regarding Pashinyan and Andreasyan's  statements desecrating the memory of the Genocide victims,  threatening dismissal, instead of asking for something," Demoyan  emphasized.

In 2025, the Armenian prime minister, at a meeting with  representatives of the Armenian community in Switzerland, questioned  the fact of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In  particular, he noted that it is first necessary to "understand what  happened and why it happened, how the Armenian people perceived it,  and through whom: how did it happen that in 1939 there was no agenda  for the Armenian Genocide, but in 1950 it emerg