Pan Armenian News

ARMENIAN PILOTS TO LEAVE MALABO FOR MOSCOW JUNE 10

08.06.2005 05:18

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman of the Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR) Ara
Abrahamian stated that the Armenian pilots released in Equatorial Guinea
will arrive in Moscow June 10. `My two representatives Andranik Migranian
and Karen Galustian are in Malabo at the moment. I hope that the pilots will
arrive in Moscow on June 10 and then depart for Armenia’, he said, ITAR-TASS
reports. Ara Abrahamian also noted that the Armenian Foreign Ministry
requested him as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador to assist to the discharge of
the Armenian pilots.’ In his words, Pope John Paul II, UNESCO Secretary
General Koichiro Matsuura and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Larvov
appealed to the leadership of Equatorial Guinea with a request to release
the pilots. `Three-month consistent and laborious work was finally crowned
with success’, Ara Abrahamian noted expressing gratitude to the authorities
of Equatorial Guinea. `Due to some historical circumstances may Armenians
live abroad. Each of them should know that he is not alone and can count on
the support of the state and the Armenian community’, the UAR chairman
resumed.