“ONE NATION, ONE CULTURE” FESTIVAL CONTRIBUTES TO ESTABLISHMENT OF
SAME NAME FOUNDATION

YEREVAN, August 24 (Noyan Tapan). “Armenia has little information
about the cultural groups existing in the Diaspora, and it is the best
occasion to recognize art critics and performers living in the
Diaspora.” Tamara Poghosian, Executive Director of the same name “One
Nation, One Culture” Foundation, said about it during the August 24
press conference dedicated to the “One Nation, One Culture” first
Pan-Armenian cultural festival that recently finished in Yerevan. At
the same time, she said that there was an opinion that the holding of
the festival may be considered as luxury for the country which is in a
heavy social situation. But according to her, it wouldn’t be justified
to wait while the state had the strong economy and to hold the
cultural festival at that time. According to Tamara Poghosian, every
state should present the cultural armoury of the country to the
generations, because every nation is first of all strong with its
national culture. T. Poghosian said that the holding of the festival
also contributed to the development of the same name “One Nation, One
Culture” Foundation, which was established several months ago. At the
same time, the Executive Director of the Foundation stressed that the
“Hayastan” (“Armenia”) Pan-Armenian Foundation mainly cared for the
financial expenditures of the festival. The organizers of the press
conference were also informed that from now on the festival is likely
to be held every three or four years.