TOURINFO-YEREVAN-The Vatican has issued a new stamp on the fourth anniversary of the Pope’s visit to Armenia. The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health, and the Vatican has joined this initiative by issuing a stamp.
The stamp depicts Pope Francis and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians watering the symbolic vine planted in Noah’s Ark, thus confirming that the theme of plant and earth health is a spiritual value. 
Pope visited Armenia in June 2016. On November 23, 2017, Vatican released special postage stamps dedicated to Pope Francis’ 2016 visits. Among the stamps, the specimen published on the historical visit to Armenia has a special place. 
The stamp is dedicated to Pope Francis’ visit to Armenia on June 24-26, 2016, under the title “Visit to the first Christian nation.” Pope Francis is depicted on the stamp, and behind him is the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial.
Designed by Daniela Longo, one of the stamps depicted Pope Francis in front of the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.
Pope Francis visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on June 25, 2016. Within the framework of a three-day visit to Armenia Pope Francis denounced the “ideologically twisted, planned genocide of Armenians starting in 1915.”
