A park in Yerevan’s Mashtots Avenue has been renamed after Missak Manouchian (a French-Armenian poet, a militant communist in the MOI [Main-d’œuvre immigrée or Immigrant Workforce Movement], and military commissioner of the FTP-MOI [Partisan irregulars of the MOI] in the Paris region).

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and French President François Hollande attended the renaming ceremony.

Missak Manouchian fled a horrible massacre. He survived the Armenian Genocide and arrived in France to find the blue skies of freedom. But when barbarity attacked France he took up arms to defend the country where he received asylum. France will never forget Armenians contribution to resistance movement in France. There is a monument to Missak Manouchian in Paris as well, President Hollande said.