The Paris City Council unanimously passed a resolution concerning the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Nouvelles d’Arménie reports.

The resolution was submitted to the Board by the Deputy Mayor for memory and veterans Catherine Vieu-Charier and Deputy Mayor for international relations and Francophonie Patrick Klyugman.

The resolution calls on the City of Paris, in cooperation with the Republic of Armenia, the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France and Armenian organizations of Paris to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide through projects aimed at raising awareness about the Armenian Genocide and at preventing its denial.

The resolution also calls on the Mayor of Paris to visit Yerevan in the framework of the activities that will be organized by the Republic of Armenia in 2015 on the commemoration of Armenian Genocide.