PRESIDENT OF FRANCE VISITS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM

ARMINFO News Agency
September 30, 2006 Saturday

President of France Jacques Chirac with spouse Bernadette Chirac
laid flowers on the Armenian Genocide Memorial "Tsitsernakaberd,"
on Saturday in the morning.

Visiting the Genocide Museum-Institute and meeting with the Director of
the Institute-Museum, Doctor of Historical Studies Lavrenty Barseghyan,
Jacques Chirac expressed a great excitement. The French president
put a note of one word "Remember!" in the Book of Honorable Quests
of the Museum. Then, by tradition, the French president planted a
fir-tree in the alley on "Tsitsernakaberd."

The delegation of the French president comprises Foreign Minister
Philippe Douste-Blazy, Transport, Tourism and Navigation Minister
Dominique Perben, Minister of State Service Christian Jacob, Minister
of Culture and Communications Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.

Accompanying the delegation are businessmen, representatives of
science, education, culture and sport, as well as members of the
French-Armenian Diaspora and journalists.