MONUMENT TO ZORAVAR ANDRANIK OPENS IN CITY OF LE PLESSIS-ROBINSON,
NEAR PARIS

PARIS, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. On June 4, in the city of Le
Plessis-Robinson near Paris, Edvard Nalbandian, the Ambassador of
Armenia and Philippe Pemezec, a French MP, the Le Plessis-Robinson
Mayor opened solemny a monument to Zoravar Andranik. As Noyan Tapan
was informed from the Press Office of the State Commission on
organizing events dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, the monument was presented to the city of Le
Plessis-Robinson by the Arabkir Prefect’s Office. A delegation of the
Arabkir Prefect’s Office headed by Prefect Levon Haroutiunian arrived
from Yerevan to participate in the event. Ambassador E.Nalbandian
mentioned that the monument to national hero Zoravar Andranik is added
to more than a hundred of memorials, streets and squares in French
cities and regions dedicated to Armenia and the Armenian people, which
symbolize in a peculiar way the great friedship and warmness and
intensity of the relations established between Armenia and
France. Patrik Devejian, a former Minister, French statesmen and
politicians, Senators, Deputies, the Paris Region Prefect, hundreds of
representatives of the Armenian community were present at the
monument’s opening ceremony which was dedicated to the 90th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.