NATIOANAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER OF FRANCE AND RA AMBASSADOR PLANT ABRICOT-TREE BROUGHT FROM ARMENIA IN PARK OF ARMENIA OPENED IN CITY OF EVREUX, NORMANDY

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 10 2006

PARIS, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A solemn ceremony
dedicated to the French-Armenian friendship took place in the city
of Evreux, Normandy, on April 7: the park of Armenia opened in the
central park of the city where Jean-Louis Debre, the National Assembly
Speaker of France and Edvard Nalbandian, the RA Ambassador in Paris
planted an abricot-tree brought from Armenia specially for that
purpose. Making a speech at the solemn ceremony organized on that
occasion, the NA Speaker of France touched upon the centuries-old
traditions of the Armenian-French friendship, emphasizing that at
present relations of Armenia and France are of brotherly character,
the birght evidence of what is the Year of Armenia to be organized
in France. The RA Ambassador mentioned in his speech that the planted
abricot-tree symbolizes in the best way the Armenian-French relations
with roots striken in the French land and having fruit with an Armenian
name. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press
and Information Department, during the private conversation before
the event, NA Speaker of France Jean-Louis Debre and Ambassador of
Armenia Edvard Nalbandian discussed current issues concerning the
Armenian-French relations.