More than 400 invitees joined the party, among them high officials such as Minister of Justice Hovhannes Manukian and Minister of Nature Protection Aramayis Grigoryan. The Marriott’s Swiss chef Rolf Graber delighted our guests with a broad variety of Swiss regional specialties ranging from the classic Züri Gschnaetzlets to Valaisan rye bread and Luganighe with Risotto from Ticino.

Also well represented was the small but steadily growing Swiss community in Armenia, as well as our old and new Armenian friends from government, politics, business, culture and academia. The Embassy’s team looked back to an intense and positive year with many cultural events and the visit of the President of the Swiss Confederation, Didier Burkhalter and the first ever Swiss business delegation to Armenia (both in June 2014) as its highlights.

The event was also an occasion to thank and say goodbye to our Defense attaché Col Simon Eugster and his wife Anna, and welcome his successor Col Bruno Russi and our new Consul Ms. Fabienne Seydoux, based in Tbilisi. Swiss Development Cooperation took the occasion to inaugurate an exhibition on its achievements in Armenia since 1988.