French actor Gerard Depardieu supports Armenian Fund

Renowned French actor Gerard Depardieu has appealed for donations to help Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in a in a video posted on YouTube.

The artist who has forged ties with Armenia by his friend Metzo Ikitian, president of the Foundation for the Development of Armenian culture, bowed to the flame Memorial Tsitsernakaberd early September. On this occasion, he met President Sargsyan at the invitation of Armenian Fund Development Culture.

This year famous French jazz musician André Manoukian is the sponsor of the Armenian Fund of France.

Donations are recorded at this time more than ten percent over last year. In 2009, France
had collected 1.3 million euros.