PanARMENIAN.Net
`Remember’. Jacques Chirac Wrote in Armenian Genocide Commemoration Book
30.09.2006 14:29 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ French President Jacques Chirac, who is on a state
visit in Armenia, attended Tsitsernakaberd to lay a wreath to the
Memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims. The President was
accompanied by his wife Bernadette Chirac, Foreign Minister Philippe
Douste-Blazy, Presidents of the French Senate and National Assembly,
members of the governmental delegation and Ambassadors of the two
states Edvard Nalbandian and Henry Cuny.
President Chirac made a note in the Armenian Genocide Commemoration
Book. He wrote, `Remember. President of France Jacques Chirac.’ The
French leader also planted a fir-tree on the alley leading to the
Memorial.
The French delegation visited the Armenian Genocide Museum. Museum
Director Lavrenty Barseghian gifted books dedicated to the Genocide to
the French President. Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Mayor
of Yerevan Yervand Zakharian and other officials also took part in the
ceremony.