On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide, Friday, April 24—the day of the Genocide centennial—is declared a non-working day in all schools in Lebanon.

The Lebanese Minister of Education and Higher Education, Elias Bou Saab, stated the aforesaid at the consecration ceremony of an Armenian cross-stone at the yard of an Armenian school in the country, reported Tayyar.org reported.

In the minister’s words, all public and private schools in Lebanon will be closed in commemoration of the one hundred-year-old tragic events.