Is part of the 102nd commemoration of the genocide of the Armenians, ANACRA, chaired by Antoine Bagdikian, Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to France, Viguen Tchitetchian, Representative of the Republic of Artsakh Hovannès Guevorguian, representatives of The Republic of Cyprus, the Assyro-Chaldeans and Kurds, and dozens of elected officials and representatives of municipalities, traveled up the Champs Elysees and deposited the sheaves of remembrance to the former Armenian combatants who died for France during the wars 1914-18 and 1939 -45. An event that was followed by the many Parisians and tourists present on the premises, massed around the Arc de Triomphe in the Place de l’Etoile Charles de Gaulle.

On this occasion the ambassador revived the flame of the Unknown Soldier, as well as the various personalities present, under the music of the Republican Guard and the Armenian and French hymns interpreted by Arnaud Khatcherian.