HENRI CUNY: WOMEN IN ARMENIA ARE MOST IMPELLENT AND MIGHTY POWER OF SOCIETY

Noyan Tapan
Mar 09 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. 150 Armenian and foreign women of
different specialities and employment gathered at the Embassy of
France in Armenia on March 7. As Henri Cuny, the French Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, mentioned, the occasion
of the evening party was the holiday of the 8th of March. “It is
natural, that this should be held at the Embassy of France, as
the symbol of France after the declaration of the republic is the
face of a woman and the bust of Mary, always young and beautiful,
is placed at every Mayor’s Office of France”, the French diplomat
mentioned. The Ambassador assured, that for men, to call the women
“a weak sex” is simply a kind of a way to “expiate sins”. Henri
Cuny in his congratulatory speech said that he is the “Ambassador
of women’s embassy” as his first Adviser, Consul, the Adviser on
cultural issues, and attaches on culture and trade-economic issues,
as well as the assistant and the translator are women. According to
him, such abundance of women is beneficial for the activity of the
embassy. According to Ambassador Cuny, women are the most impellent
and mighty power of the society in the ancient and traditional
Armenian land.” Being in Armenia, I became more convinced, that
the nations develop by means of women: mildness is their power,
devotion is the protection of men, their mystery is our belief”,
the Ambassador announced.