FRENCH MAYOR OF VALENCE GIVES UNPUBLISHED ARCHIVES TO THE MEMORIAL MUSEUM
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Today, a French delegation consisted of about twenty representatives of
several regions of France led by the mayor of Valencia Alain Maurice,
assisted by Gregoire Tafankedjian, President of the COADA (Armenian
Coordination of Organizations the Drôme Ardèche) and of Baba Sada
Sow, project leader of Valence city for the International Relations,
will prepare the Conferences of the French-Armenian decentralized
cooperation which will take place in Valencia in September 2013 in
partnership with the group France constituted within the Association
of the Municipalities of Armenia.
Besides, this official visit will also be an opportunity for
association Cartofila Memoire Armenienne, in association with the city
of Valencia and its Mayor Alain Maurice, to put back to the director
of the genocide of Tsitsernakaberd, Hayk Demonian, as well as to the
Directorate of Armenian national Archives, represented by Amadouni
Virabian, an exceptional collection of 200 unexploited photos,
as well as an important correspondence maintained to Diyarbakir
between the missions and the Consul of France on the massacres of
the garrison of Ourfa, massacres committed to Mardin, narrative of
life, etc. Also several exercise books of handwritten pupils telling
the massacres in Armenia (1895-1896 ) and narratives of exile (
1914,1915,1919,1920,1921).
Several meetings are planned between Yves Revillon, Vice-President
of the Hauts-de-Seine department, Alain Maurice mayor of Valence
and Ambassador of France Henri Reynaud and Christian ter Stepanian,
ambassador, advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of
Francophonie. Wednesday delegation will be received in audience by
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan; with Hovik Abrahamyan, President of
the National Assembly and the Mayor Taron Margaryan.
23.10.12, 10:52
http://times.am/?l=en&p=14005
Today, a French delegation consisted of about twenty representatives of
several regions of France led by the mayor of Valencia Alain Maurice,
assisted by Gregoire Tafankedjian, President of the COADA (Armenian
Coordination of Organizations the Drôme Ardèche) and of Baba Sada
Sow, project leader of Valence city for the International Relations,
will prepare the Conferences of the French-Armenian decentralized
cooperation which will take place in Valencia in September 2013 in
partnership with the group France constituted within the Association
of the Municipalities of Armenia.
Besides, this official visit will also be an opportunity for
association Cartofila Memoire Armenienne, in association with the city
of Valencia and its Mayor Alain Maurice, to put back to the director
of the genocide of Tsitsernakaberd, Hayk Demonian, as well as to the
Directorate of Armenian national Archives, represented by Amadouni
Virabian, an exceptional collection of 200 unexploited photos,
as well as an important correspondence maintained to Diyarbakir
between the missions and the Consul of France on the massacres of
the garrison of Ourfa, massacres committed to Mardin, narrative of
life, etc. Also several exercise books of handwritten pupils telling
the massacres in Armenia (1895-1896 ) and narratives of exile (
1914,1915,1919,1920,1921).
Several meetings are planned between Yves Revillon, Vice-President
of the Hauts-de-Seine department, Alain Maurice mayor of Valence
and Ambassador of France Henri Reynaud and Christian ter Stepanian,
ambassador, advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of
Francophonie. Wednesday delegation will be received in audience by
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan; with Hovik Abrahamyan, President of
the National Assembly and the Mayor Taron Margaryan.
23.10.12, 10:52