From our special correspondent in Yerevan (Armenia)
With a collected face, Yaël Braun-Pivet took a step forward.
She placed a crown of tricolor flowers in front of the flame, resistant to the dry cold of winter.
At the Armenian Genocide Memorial, on January 13, on a hill overlooking Yerevan, facing Mount Ararat, the President of the National Assembly pays tribute to the some 1.5 million victims decimated by their Turkish neighbor, between 1915 and 1918
. Like the Armenian people, the flame that burns here expresses both pain and ardor: it will never go out.
, she wrote on the guestbook.
An inscription filed in the name of the French deputies visiting Armenia with her until Saturday: the socialist vice-president of the National Assembly, Valérie Rabault, the deputy for French people living abroad, Anne Genetet, and the president of the group of friendship France-Armenia, Anne-Laurence Petel, both members of the presidential camp.
The delegation of deputies, who came to reaffirm the
“support…
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