GUESTS FROM 15 CITIES IN THE CELEBRATION OF YEREVAN DAY
By Ara Martirosian
AZG Armenian Daily
03/10/2007
"Delegations of 15 cities of different countries will arrive in our
capital to participate in the celebration of Yerevan Day on October
11-13", announced at a press conference Head of Foreign Relations
Department of the Municipality of Yerevan Davit Gevorgian on October
1. "Those cities are sister or "colleague" towns of Yerevan.
The guests will be mainly from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd,
Rostov-on-Don, Magnitogorsk, Minsk, Isfahan, Odessa and other
cities. This year the number of the guests will exceed the number of
last year".
"As a rule, each delegation of those cities will be attached to a
community of our capital and participate in the celebrations in that
community", mentioned Davit Gevorgian, "For example, Moscow always
participates with the community "Kentron", etc".
25 mln drams is appropriated to bear the expenses connected with
the guests.
Yerevan has Agreements of Cooperation with 24 cities and towns,
with some of them since Soviet time, i.e. Titograd of Chernogoria.
The last city that became a sister town of Yerevan is French Nice,
preceded by Los Angeles. Yerevan has more active cooperation with
French Lion and Marcel, and Moscow from CIS countries. The cooperation
is in different spheres: from technical cooperation to educational
programs. Nice, for example, is interesting for Armenia in the sense
of tourism.