FRENCH ARMENIANS MARK 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF TREATY OF SEVRES SIGNING
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 12, 2010 – 12:58 AMT 07:58 GMT
The Armenian community of France marked the 90th anniversary of the
signing of the Treaty of Sevres. Nearly 250 people, including Armenian
Ambassador to France Vigen Tchitetchian, Primate of the Armenian
Diocese of France, Bishop Norvan Zakarian, leaders of the Armenian,
Chaldean, Assyrian, Kurdish and Greek communities, attended the
ceremony, freelance French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net
Under auspices of the mayor of Sevres, M. Francois Kosciusko-Morizet,
and National Association of Armenian Veterans, the mayor of the
Chaville Jean-Jacques Guillet briefed on the history of the Treaty
signing.
For her part, Mrs. Hilda Tchoboian, the chairperson of the European
Armenian Federation, said that "the Treaty of Lausanne did not
obliterate the Treaty of Sevres."
"These are two separate documents," she said, adding that the Treaty
of Sevres was the signal of the resurrection of the Armenian nation
and that the past cannot be forgotten.