ELECTRONIC REFERENDUM LAUNCHED OVER TURNING SHOUSHI PAN-ARMENIAN CULTURAL CENTER

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.04.2006 01:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 4 Shoushi Foundation launched an electronic
referendum () to turn Shoushi into a pan-Armenian
cultural and tourist center, Foundation initiator, writer, publicist
Bakur Karapetyan stated at a news conference today. In his words,
at least 1 US dollar or euro transferred to the Foundation will be
considered as a vote. Bakur Karapetyan informed project of revival
of Shoushi is worked out.

In the writer’s words, with the financial support of the Beirut
Catholic community, which provided $24 thousand, organized
archaeological excavations were carried out in Shoushi Plateau,
which specifically resulted in discovering a fortress of 12th century,
registration of 525 historical monuments, tourism sights and cultural
regions of the region were studied. Within the framework of the project
the Foundation also registered evidence of all participants of the
Artsakh liberation struggle to publish a multi-volume collection in
the future, To remind, at the beginning of the Karabakh national
liberation movement Shoushi population was 8000, while it numbers
only 2500 at present.