RA President Serzh Sargsyan is on a visit to Paris as part of his Pan-Armenian tour. He laid flowers at the monument to Komitas, paying tribute to the memory of the Genocide victims. Several dozen representatives of the Armenian community were holding a rally of protest against the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement. At 8:00 p.m. Paris time, the Armenian leader is to hold a meeting with representatives of Diaspora in European countries. “Our concern is the points of the agreement that may call in the fact of the Armenian Genocide in question,” said one of the demonstrators, Lourent Vardanian, a member of Van partnership, an Armenian-French Association informing the public of the massacres of Armenians.

President Sargsyan had lunch in Paris with chansonnier Charles Aznavour, one of the renowned French Armenians, before meeting with members of the local Armenian community here, Associated Press reported, referring to RA Presidential Spokesman Samvel Farmanian.

Thereupon, President Sargsyan is set to continue what is dubbed a “Pan-Armenian tour” with visits to New York, Los Angeles, Beirut and Rostov-on-Don in Russia to discuss Oct. 10 meeting, when the Turkish and Armenian Foreign Ministers are expected to sign the agreement.