WILL THE FESTIVAL BECOME TRADITIONAL?

Panorama.am
14:26 24/06/06

The participants of One Nation, One Culture festival, which launched
yesterday evening, were discontent with the organizational matters
upon their visit to Tsitsernakaberd. They put flowers on the eternal
fire commemorating the genocide victims and also planted a tree in
the fir-tree grove.

Vigen Sargsyan, president assistant, who deals with the organization
of the festival, was not aware of the discontents. Tamar Poghosyan,
who has won the title of unsuccessful culture vice minister told that
discontents are due to large number of participants.

In her words, delegations from 20 countries take part totaling 2000
participants.

"Nothing can be perfect. We deal with 2000 people and each has her/her
own demands, understanding and mentality. Difficulties are mainly
connected with the lack of information. We really have problems in
organizational matters since we cannot provide the level of service
for such mass events. Some think that they will get personal service
cars. There are some groups which have performed on big stages of
the world. We provide whatever we have. We should work with the
delegations and explain them," T. Poghosyan said.