ARMENIAN CITY OF GYUMRI AND BRAZILIAN CITY OF OZASCO BECOME BROTHER CITIES

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 10 2006

YEREVAN, July 10. /ARKA/. The Armenian city of Gyumri and Brazilian
city of Ozasco have become friend brother cities. The relevant
decision, made by the Ozasco parliament before, was signed the city
mayor Emidio De Souza on July 4, 2006.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry press service reported that the ceremony
of signing was attended by ministers of the city government and MPs
of the Ozasco parliament, presidents of Brazilian-Armenian unions
and organizations, and also the leader of the Brazilian Diocese of
the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Tatev Gharibyan.

De Souza also handed a letter, addressed to Gyumri mayor Vardan
Ghukasyan, over to general consul of Armenia Ashot Yeghiazaryan. In
the letter, the mayor of the Brazilian city invites Ghukasyan to pay
an official visit to Ozasco within the near few months to get familiar
with the life of this city.

During the ceremony of signing it was stated that according to the
request by the General Consulate of Armenia and the local Armenian
Diaspora, the Ozasco city administration will allot a necessary
territory for construction of a Trade and Cultural Center of
Armenia. R.O. -0–