Arka News Agency, Armenia
Feb 16 2007

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT FRANCE FEB 17

YEREVAN. February 16. /ARKA/. Armenian President Robert Kocharian
will visit France on February 17-21. The press service of the
Armenian president reported Kocharian will meet with French President
Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, Chairman of the
Senate Christian Ponslet, and Speaker of the Parliament Jean-Louis
Debre.
The Armenian president and his wife Bella Kocharian will participate
in the concert "Charles Aznavour and Friends" to be held in the Paris
Opera Garnier within the frameworks of the Year of Armenia in France.
They will also visit the exhibit of the great painter of sea-scapes
Hovhannes Aivazovsky at the Military-Marine Museum of Paris.
The exhibit Armenia Sacra will be opened at the presence of the
Armenian and French presidents.
Kocharian will also meet with representatives of the local Armenian
Diaspora. Besides this, the delegation led by the Armenian president
will go to Nice, where the opening ceremony of Square of Armenia will
take place, and it will meet with the city administration. R.O. -0–