You visited the first Christian country, but you ignored the Catholicos of All Armenians, who has been subjected to persecution for a long time.

You visited the first Christian country, but you ignored the Catholicos of All Armenians, who has been subjected to persecution for a long time, wrote former Armenian Ambassador to the Holy See Mikael Minasyan in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, published by the prestigious French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche

“The friendship between France and Armenia has centuries of history and deep roots in values, but let me state a simple truth: just as Armenia is not Nikol Pashinyan, France is not you,” the letter reads.