Pan Armenian News

ARMENIAN REPRESENTATIVE DELEGATION ARRIVED IN ISRAEL

13.05.2005 09:50

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ May 13 a representative delegation of Armenia left for
Israel. A reception was thereupon organized in Jerusalem. The delegation
includes Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, Secretary of the Security
Council at the President, Defense Minister Serge Sargsian, President of the
World Armenian Congress and head of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara
Abrahamian, Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Tigran Sargsian,
President of the Academy of Sciences Fadey Sargsian and other supreme
officials. The delegation totals 80 persons. Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yona
Metzger, President of the World Council of Christians and Jews rabbi David
Rosen, Knesset deputies, representatives of NGOs and others took part from
the Israeli side. As Catholicos of All Armenians stated when addressing the
reception participants, `this visit will mark the new wide dialogue between
the two religions and peoples.’ At that he announced the beginning of `a new
epoch in relations between Jews and Armenians.’ In his turn WAC leader Ara
Abrahamian noted the proximity of the national and cultural traditions of
the Armenian and Jewish peoples. At that he stated that if the civilized
community had paid attention to the Armenian Genocide, it might have been
possible to avoid the Jewish Holocaust during the World War II, Regnum news
agency reported.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress