Yerevan to have Europe Square

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YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. The city of Yerevan will have a Europe Square.

The City Council of the Armenian capital unanimously approved the proposal made jointly by the foreign ministry and Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan, Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, on naming a square after the Council of Europe or Europe in downtown Yerevan.

City Hall official Armine Vardanyan noted that 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of establishment of the Council of Europe.

She said the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit Armenia in March 26-28, and the inauguration of the square will take place during the visit.

An area within Northern Avenue has been chosen as the location for the new square.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS