Accompanied by President Armen Sarkissian and his spouse Nune Sarkissian, President of Italy Sergio Mattarella, who is in Armenia on a two-day state visit, on Tuesday paid a visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial in capital Yerevan with his daughter Laura Mattarella.

The Armenian and Italian leaders laid a wreath at the memorial and placed flowers at the Eternal Flame to pay tribute to the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

As the Armenian presidential office said in a press release, President Mattarella also planted a fir at the Memory Alley of Tsitsernakaberd.