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EDWARD NALBANDIAN OPENS YEREVAN GARDEN IN PARIS
Jean Eckian
Gibrahyer
March 12, 2009
Paris
In front of a thousand people, the orchestra of the Municipal police
of Paris played the Armenian anthem while Armenian Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandian together with Charles Aznavour and The Mayor of Paris
Bertrand DelanoÃ"un unveiled the plate marking the site of the Â"
Jardin d'Erevan Â" (Garden of Yerevan), located behind the memorial
of the Armenian Genocide.
This green area is bordered of two lines of large trees, along the
edges of the Seine on 255 meters of length and 25 meters in width.
Bertrand DelanoÃ" and Edward Nalbandian are mutually happy of the
fraternal friendship which united Yerevan and Paris. In addition, the
mayor of Paris wished that the Armenian and French people share their
know-how in the fields of culture, education and health. Moreover,
he put the emphasis on the intolerable denial of the Armenian Genocide
which prevails in Turkey and even in France.
Many personalities of Armenian descent were present at this event:
singer Hélène Segara, MP Francois Rochebloine and the Minister André
Santini, archbishop of Paris Norvan Zakarian, the king of caviar in
Paris Armen Petrossian, film producer Alain Terzian, Pierre Terzian,
Chairman of Armenian Funds of France.
Jean Eckian
Gibrahyer
March 12, 2009
Paris
In front of a thousand people, the orchestra of the Municipal police
of Paris played the Armenian anthem while Armenian Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandian together with Charles Aznavour and The Mayor of Paris
Bertrand DelanoÃ"un unveiled the plate marking the site of the Â"
Jardin d'Erevan Â" (Garden of Yerevan), located behind the memorial
of the Armenian Genocide.
This green area is bordered of two lines of large trees, along the
edges of the Seine on 255 meters of length and 25 meters in width.
Bertrand DelanoÃ" and Edward Nalbandian are mutually happy of the
fraternal friendship which united Yerevan and Paris. In addition, the
mayor of Paris wished that the Armenian and French people share their
know-how in the fields of culture, education and health. Moreover,
he put the emphasis on the intolerable denial of the Armenian Genocide
which prevails in Turkey and even in France.
Many personalities of Armenian descent were present at this event:
singer Hélène Segara, MP Francois Rochebloine and the Minister André
Santini, archbishop of Paris Norvan Zakarian, the king of caviar in
Paris Armen Petrossian, film producer Alain Terzian, Pierre Terzian,
Chairman of Armenian Funds of France.