19 03 2008 - Giardino di Yerevan a Parigi

Parigi ---12-3-2009
Con l'inno nazionale armeno eseguito dalla banda musicale della polizia municipale di Parigi si è inaugurato il Giardino di Yerevan, "Jardin d'Erevan", in prossimità del monumento ai caduti armeni ( la scultura imponente di Komitas). Erano presenti Edouard Nalbandyan Ministro armeno degli Affari Esteri, Charles Aznavour, Bertrand Delanoe Sindaco di Parigi e numerose personalità pubbliche francesi di origine armena ......

Jean Eckian / Paris - March 12 - 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 Delanoëun unveiled the plate marking the site of the « Jardin d’Erevan » (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 Delanoë 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 emph asis 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 François 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

Seta Martayan