ITAR-TASS News Agency
November 24, 2006 Friday 10:07 AM EST

Los Angeles TV marathon raises funds for Karabakh

YEREVAN, November 24

ByTigran Liloyan

The Los Angeles annual marathon in support of Nagorno- Karabakh has
raised 13.6 million dollars. The TV marathon continued for 12 hours
since Thursday evening until Friday morning.

“The results of the marathon were beyond expectations,” a source
from the head information department under the president of self-
proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh said on Friday.

This year the television marathon was held in the framework of the
Restoration of Karabakh program. The funds raised by the marathon
will be contributed to the restoration and development of the
Gadrudsky region of Nagorny Karabakh, its water supply system, health
service facilities and schools.

President of self-proclaimed Nagorny Karabakh Arkady Gukasyan visited
the United States to attend the marathon; he met influential
representatives of the Armenian Diaspora who contributed to the
success of the marathon, a source from Stepanakert said.

The TV marathon was broadcast live by Armenian Public Television,
satellite television to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and also via
cable TV channels of the Armenian Diaspora.

In the run-up to the US marathon a similar act was held in Europe in
which 13,000 people took part who contributed 1.1 million euros to
Karabakh. The Armenian Diaspora in Belgium took part in the marathon
for the first time alongside the Armenian communities in the
Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland.