YEREVAN, JUNE 8, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Armenian and French Foreign Ministers' joint press-conference will be held in Paris on September 12 in which the program of events envisaged within the framework of the Year of Armenia in France will be presented. RA President's Assistant Vigen Sargsian informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent about it. According to him, the Year of Armenia in France will officially open on September 21, the Independence Day of Armenia, and will last till July 14, 2007, the day of the French Revolution. But the events will continue till October-November of the next year. According to V.Sargsian, a conference of sister cities will be organized in Paris in October: Armenia and France have 27 sister cities. A business forum will open in Paris in November, within the framework of the Year in which Ministers coordinating branches of Armenian economy and business delegations will participate. According to V.Sargsian, main events of the Year of Armenia in France will start in February, 2007, by the exhibition entitled "Surb Hayastan" (Saint Armenia) to take place in the Louvre Palace, during which about 40 Armenian khachkars (cross stones) will for the first time be exhibited and treasures of Etchmiadzin as well as models relating to Armenian Christian culture taken from Antelias, Jerusalem, Venice San Lazzaro island will be presented. An exhibition of paintings of Arshil Gorki, a great painter of Armenian origin of the 20th century as well as an exhibition entitled "Architecture of 12 Armenian Capitals" will open within the framework of the Year.

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