YEREVAN.- The Museum in Yerevan Mayor’s Office hosts on Friday a charity origami exhibition with proceeds to be sent to the Japanese Embassy in Moscow to aid some children’s institution in disaster-hit Japan.

Several hundred of different types of origami were presented at the exhibition organized by Hikari NGO. Some of them are made by children.

Ashot Voskanyan, head of Asia-Pacific and Africa Department at the Armenian Foreign Ministry, said Japan provided assistance to Armenia during the 1988 Spitak earthquake. Over the recent 20 years Armenia  also received credits and grants from Japan.

“We are grateful to Japan. It is a sign of friendship of two nations,” he added.