PRESIDENTS OF ARMENIA AND FRANCE DISCUSSED THE ISSUES OF BILATERAL RELATIONS

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Feb 20 2007

February 19 Presidents of France and Armenia Jacque Chirac and Robert
Kocharian participated in the opening ceremony of "Sacred Armenia"
(Armenia Sacra) exhibition in Louvre. The Presidents visited an
exhibition, where 200 pieces were displayed, including 30 Khachkars
(cross stone), parts of "Noah’s Ark", etc.

Accompanied with France’s Culture and Communication Minister Renaud
Donnedieu de Vabres, Jacques Chirac stayed too long in front of a
wood piece of "Noah’s Ark" discovered in XVII century on the top of
Ararat Mount. The exhibition, which is organized within the frames
of Armenia’s Year in France, will be open till May 21.

After visiting the exhibition, Presidents of Armenia and France
held a meeting, in the course of which they discussed the issues of
Armenian-French relations and the current stage of the Nagorno-Karabagh
conflict settlement.

To remind, February 17 Robert Kocharian arrived in France on a four-day
visit. RA President is to meet France’s high-ranking officials, in
part, French PM Dominique de Villepin, the President of the French
Senate Christiane Poncelet and National Assembly’s Speaker Jean-Louis
Debre, IA Regnum reports.