YEREVAN. – A series of events on “Europe 100 years after the First World War” will kick off this Friday in Armenia, UK Ambassador Katherine Leach said on Wednesday.
The representatives of British and German embassies will visit Gyumri, Armenia's second largest city.
“We will talk to the students of specialized English and German schools and will present the history of the First World War and its lessons,” Ambassador said.
The embassy representatives will plant poppies that will symbolize memory of the victims, as poppy was a flower that blossomed in battlefields after war.
A joint service of the Armenian Apostolic Church and Anglican Church will be held on November 11 in Surb Zoravor church. Representatives of UK Embassy will visit a German cemetery in Yerevan. There will be also a contest of German and British pianists.
“And finally, on December 5, a symbolic ceremony will be held. On this day, on the eve of the Christmas holidays in 1914, soldiers in trenches began to sing Christmas songs. Then they came out of the trenches and played football between the trenches. We call it the 'Christmas truce', and try to restore the German-British football game,” Leach added.