ONE OF ROMANIAN JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ ETHNIC ARMENIAN

31.03.2005 05:28

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ One of the three journalists kidnapped in Iraq March 28,
Romania Liberia newspaper correspondent Eduard Ovidiu Ohanesian, 36, is ethnic
Armenian, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia reported. The other two
are correspondents of Prima TV Channel – Marie Jeanne Ion, 32, and cameraman
Sorin Dumitru Miscoci, 30. They were taken hostage on the second day after the
meeting of Romanian President Traian Basescu with Romanian servicemen in Iraq.
After being kidnapped the Romanian journalists managed to get in touch withthe
TV channel and to report the happening. Traian Basescu stated that Romania
will do its best to return the journalists to the fatherland. The kidnappers
have not made any demands in exchange for freeing the prisoners yet.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress