"DIASPORA FIRST OF ALL EXISTS OWING TO ARMENIAN NATIONAL CULTURE," BULGARIAN ARMENIAN TRANSLATOR HAKOB ORMANCHIYAN SAYS

Noyan Tapan
Jun 29 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The "One Nation, One Culture"
all-Armenian cultural festival must be aimed to crystallize
the national culture. Razmik Tamraziants, the Chairman of the
"Austro-Armenian Cultural Company" expressed such a confidence in
the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent. According to him,
Diasporan Armenians, especially young ones relates to the Armenian
culture very little, and events being organized in Armenia must give
them possibility to contact with the national culture. The Diasporan
Armenian figure arrived in Armenia to participate in the festival at
the invitation of the RA Ministry of Culture and Youth Issues finds
that "a spiritual tie among Diasporan Armenians and Armenians of
Armenia is created by similar events as well."

According to Bulgarian Armenian translator Hakob Ormanchiyan, the
national culture first of all unites world-spread Armenians. "We must
perform our national song and dance everywhere as the Armenian culture
is our national pride, and Diaspora exists first of all owing to that
culture," he mentioned.