Members of the RA NA Armenia-France Friendship Group meet with Valérie Boyar

On April 23 the members of the RA NA Armenia-France Friendship Group met with Valérie Boyar, the deputy of the National Assembly, member of France-Armenia Friendship Group, who is also the author of the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide in France.

Highly assessing the existing multilateral relations between the two countries the Head of the NA Armenia-France Friendship Group Ara Babloyan has thanked the deputy, noting that they host with joy a person, who with her approaches and activity has shown the attitude of France towards Armenia.

Valérie Boyar thanked her colleagues for warm reception, noting that she visited Armenia for the second time, and for her Armenia was already a dear family. She noted that she had visited Yerevan to honor the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims together with Armenians.

The deputy Boyar also said that they had created a Friendship Group with Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR), and the former deputies of France also take part in that activity. She expressed hope that the friendship with the NKR would be effective and would also promote the strengthening of cooperation in different sectors.

Members of Armenia-France Friendship Group Naira Zohrabyan, Mher Shahgeldyan, Margarit Yesayan, Khachatur Kokobelyan, Karine Atshemyan, Mnatsakan Mnatsakanyna welcomed the French deputy’s visit to Armenia on the eve of April 24 and thanked her for the work done, as well as for the activity in favor of Armenians. The Armenian deputies also reaffirmed that they would do their best in more deepening the friendship existing between the two countries.

Valérie Boyar noted with regret that though the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide had been again refused, they would create another format with the deputies of the European Parliament, and would address their efforts for raising the issue again.

At the end of the meeting by the proposal of Ara Babloyan and Margarit Yesayan the project of the Armenian composer Alexander Iradyan, dedicated to the 850th anniversary of the construction of Notre-Dame de Paris , was presented to the guest. A documentary film with 15-minute duration about the programme was also presented.