 Hello, good evening. Welcome to Armenian pavilion. My name is Talar Kalenderian. I will introduce you to our pavilion. You can come in with me. So, welcome. This is our entrance. As you can see, we are putting Armenian music, all our traditional music. Can you speak a little bit about the music? Armenian music, there's a lot to say. We are famous. I don't know what to say. This is not live, right? No, no, it's not live. I have this part. Of course, this is not natural. But we participate a lot in the music competitions. There are a lot of singers participating in Eurovision. It's a European singing competition. And as you know, like Armenia, we are very old nationality. So, we've been in the region like long time ago. We have like some pundits from... Let me double check. I will repeat the sentence. I don't want to say wrong date. 12th, 11th, before Christ. So, we have some pundits from 11th, 12th century BC. And this one, they found it from bottom lake of Sevan. And here also we have one item. It represents the solar system. This one is the earth. They are saying it's the water and the land. And this one is the sun. This broken part, it should be on the right, the moon and the other solar system plants. So, this is also old one from 11th or 12th century BC. This piece, all the items, they are the duplicated one because the original one we cannot bring it. This, we call it birth certificate of our capital, Yerevan. Now, we call the capital Yerevan. And when the king, Arkishti, he make the city Yerepuni. He make this stone and he put it at the gate and he write with the cuneiform inscription. And one of the sentence it's saying, I'm Arkishti the king. I'm building Yerepuni the city to protect my people from the enemies. So, he make the city year 782 BC, it means until now our capital is 2800 years old. It's even we say older than the city of Rome. Here you can see about our history, the art. All these books, they are in Armenian, our language, we have alphabet. This book, it's called Urpatiam book or Friday book. It was printed and published, first printed and published book in 1512. This book, it was printed in Italy about astronomy. It means that time Armenian they were reaching there. Like our knowledge it was reaching to Italy. It was printed in Venice year 1755. We were talking Armenian, but we couldn't write until Mesrop Maslotsi created our letters. 39 letters, year 405. So, after 5th century we started writing and all our books in Armenian. This book, we call it Narek, it's our Armenian Bible. It was written in the 12th century by Saint, we call it George Naregati. And in 2018 they put his bronze statue in Vatican. And on this side we are showing like some old items before Christianity. 4 to 5 centuries BC drinking with vessels they were used by our kings. Here you can see Goblet, this one is the oldest one between 21, 22 century BC. On it there are 25 people and 36 animals. Also this belongs to our kings. So, this is the proof that we were in the area like before Christianity. More books, history book about our fight with Iranian. We had a lot of fight with them, but now we are in good relationship. That time they came to our capital, they made their mosque called Lumos. Until now it's open, they come, they pray, the tourists also they can visit it. Here we have math book from the 7th century. As you see there are no numbers because during that time in the 7th century we didn't know the numbers. So we use our alphabet to write numbers and dates. This is from the 13th century, it's a gospel. Because we are the first Christian country in the world, here it will show our religion and the picture of the cross and one of the saints. Christian country in the world, yes. And in Jerusalem also they mention it Armenian, they are the first country that adopted Christianity as their official religion. And before that, of course, before Christianity we were like praying for the sun, the animals in 15th and 16th centuries BC. We were like praying, cherishing the bull and the goats. The bull it means sun and spring and goats for rain and fertility. And of course we have other items. This is not religion, only items from before. And nowadays we have the history but also we are involving, we are a country of four seasons. We have the spring, summer, fall and winter. Here in the video it's showing like what kind of fruits that we have, the touristic activities. A lot of churches and monasteries. And this one here, it represents the tree of life. The tree of life, it means our history, it's deep like the root of the tree. But we are growing, we are going up in the sky and spreading, we are flowering also. And also it means like we have a lot of smart people, like a lot of musicians and champion gold medalist winners all around the world. And of course we have the technology in our heart. Nowadays you can see more than 600 startup companies, technology, innovation centers in Armenia, like not only Yerevan, all around Armenia. And this part is the future, what we do now. The two VR's, it's showing our agriculture, the technology, the IT, the touristic places. Now we have a solar system to reduce the electricity in Armenia. This is one of the technology science centers. The concept is they offer free rooms for the students or the people that they want to develop their projects. And the other part is a hotel and all the benefits they take, they use it for the region, either develop the schools or help the kids. Here, like our technology, like I said, a lot of innovation IT centers, IT laboratories we have. How many people are living in Armenia? Nowadays in Armenia we are 3 million, the population, but outside Armenia we are 10 million. It's like Charles Aznavour. Charles Aznavour, yes, is one of the flowers on the tree. It's the best ever, maybe. Yes. One of the best ever. That's why you talk about La Francophonie right here. It's a big partnership with the French language and everything. Yes. And nowadays we have a lot of, wait, nowadays we have schools and French university in Armenia and some schools, they give the choice to the students to choose French or English as their third language. All right. I cannot talk more. Yes. Here you can see the pomegranate. It's our national fruit and some handmade items because we have very nice handmade, I forgot. Handmade. No, no. Carpets? Carpets. Anyway, let's cancel this one. No problem. We had this one, the market. Yeah, handmade market. There's some stuff here. Yeah, so we have handmade markets in Yerevan and also we work with silver. We do handmade silver jewellery as we have silver mine. The music. Also, yes, we have a lot of artists, music. You will see Armenian people dancing in the streets and playing all the corner of the capital city Yerevan. And here also on the wall we are showing a little bit of everything what we have in Armenia. Let's start with the food, our cuisine. Is he playing at the world championships? I don't know the name yet. Yeah, sorry. Yes, yes. I don't know which one. One of them is Artura Praham. Let's check. I will check with Zamen. Okay. So I will talk in general. Our cuisine is very rich. We have the bread, the cheese, the barbecue, the beef. Then we call it dolma. It's grape leaves, the picture there. And this one we call it sujuk. It's all walnut and the top it's covered in jelly made by grapes. Of course, we have the church and monument. This temple is from Romanian time. But of course, we innovated some parts. Yes. And we have the zip line, a lot of activities for tourists. To go to this church, that we call it, you have to take the longest cable cart. One of the longest cable cart in the world to reach there. And of course, we have the lake, Sevan Lake. The water is cold during the summertime. And we have a lot of gold medalists in weightlifting, wrestling and boxing. We teach chess in school as part of curriculum. And of course, we have winners, first place winners in chess. And as I talked about technology, we have the Koyev center, Tumo center also. And this is the observatory. It was 1949 or 1947, I don't remember. And a lot of churches, monuments. And you will see the cross-rock everywhere as we are the first Christian country. And the details you see, like we have there an angel. And here also, all these are grapes. So it will show the artistic side of Armenia. Yes. So the region sometimes having some issues, right? Politically and all this stuff. But the message here is the future should be just peace for everybody. Yes, of course. And nowadays it's peace. Thanks God. So I hope it will continue like this. And we are teaching our children more to technology, to be peaceful, how to love all the nationalities and accept them. All the countries around Armenia need to be friendly. Yes, we had a big war with Turkey but now we are living in peace with them. We have a border and like what happened after 100 years, more than 100 years. We didn't forget it but we don't fight. So we want to keep it peaceful with Turkey. And Iraq and hopefully the future is touching also. We don't have borders with Iran. Syria. No, Syria also we don't have borders. So we have borders. Armenia has borders with Georgia from north, Turkey from west, from south, a small border with Iran and Azerbaijan from east.