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ARMENIAN COUPLE NAMES BABY 'SARKOZY' IN HONOR OF FRENCH LEADER
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26.01.12 | 11:24
Photo: www.azatutyun.am
A couple in Armenia named their newborn baby on Wednesday after French
President Nicolas Sarkozy in appreciation of his role in the passage
of the French law criminalizing the public denial of the genocide of
Armenians during World War I.
The Avetisyans, a family in Gyumri, said they had originally planned
to name their firstborn Gevorg, in honor of the child's grandfather,
but after the Monday passage of the bill in Paris decided to name the
expected baby after the French leader, whose party initiated the
legislation.
"Let our baby, Sarkozy Avetisian, become a man as brave and just as
his namesake," the newborn's grandmother said.
The baby born in the Gyumri maternity hospital on Wednesday afternoon
is said to be a healthy child. The little Sarkozy weighs 3 kilograms
(6.6 pounds) and is 50 centimeters (19 inches) tall.
In 2001, when France first recognized the Ottoman-era mass killing of
Armenians as genocide, another couple in Armenia named their newborn
twins "Jacques" and "Chirac" in honor of then-French President Jacques
Chirac.
http://www.armenianow.com/news/34998/armenia_baby_sarkozy News |
26.01.12 | 11:24
Photo: www.azatutyun.am
A couple in Armenia named their newborn baby on Wednesday after French
President Nicolas Sarkozy in appreciation of his role in the passage
of the French law criminalizing the public denial of the genocide of
Armenians during World War I.
The Avetisyans, a family in Gyumri, said they had originally planned
to name their firstborn Gevorg, in honor of the child's grandfather,
but after the Monday passage of the bill in Paris decided to name the
expected baby after the French leader, whose party initiated the
legislation.
"Let our baby, Sarkozy Avetisian, become a man as brave and just as
his namesake," the newborn's grandmother said.
The baby born in the Gyumri maternity hospital on Wednesday afternoon
is said to be a healthy child. The little Sarkozy weighs 3 kilograms
(6.6 pounds) and is 50 centimeters (19 inches) tall.
In 2001, when France first recognized the Ottoman-era mass killing of
Armenians as genocide, another couple in Armenia named their newborn
twins "Jacques" and "Chirac" in honor of then-French President Jacques
Chirac.