ARMENIAN EMBASSY IN VIENNA SEEMS TO HINDER FROM HOLDING DAYS OF ARMENIAN CULTURE IN COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 27 2006

VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The "Days of
Armenian Culture" event dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the
Republic of Armenia, which were envisaged on the initiative of the
Armenian Organizations in Europe Representation, is close to failure
in a number of countries of Central Europe. There is no information
about reasons of failure of this great cultural initiative yet, but
according to information of Noyan Tapan, the Minister of Culture of
Slovakia, for example, disproved his preliminary agreement to sponsor
those events, reasoning that he made that decision as a result of a
discussion with the Armenian Embassy in Vienna. It was not managed
yet to find out why the RA Embassy in Vienna hinders from holding
the Days of Armenian Culture in those countries, but it is clear that
absence of patronage of the Culture Ministry of Slovakia means absence
of wide-spread propaganda of the Armenian culture envisaged in that
country. And resources of intiator of the Days of Armenian Culture
Ashot Grigorian as well of the Armenian community of Slovakia may be
too scanty for holding a similar voluminous propaganda. As a result,
the Armenian culture festival will be held in that country on a very
small scale, in the best case.