PAN-ARMENIAN TELETHON RAISES 35M DOLLARS
Armenian Public TV
Nov 28 2008
Armenia
It said that the 11th pan-Armenian annual telethon showed
"unprecedented results despite the global financial crisis".
The telethon was held in Los Angeles on 27 November at the initiative
of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund and its motto was "My home, Armenia",
the TV said. It added that the money raised during this and other
fund-raising events will be used for development projects in Armenia
and Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagornyy Karabakh.
The TV station added that a Pan-European telethon held in France in
November 2008 raised 1.2bn euros. An Armenian businessman from Russia,
Samvel Karapetyan, has announced an about 15m-dollar donation which
will go to the construction of a hospital in Stepanakert (Xankandi),
the capital of Nagornyy Karabakh, the TV station said.
It also quoted the separatist Nagornyy Karabakh president, Bako
Sahakyan, who attended the telethon in Los Angeles, as saying:
"We once again receive an opportunity to say aloud to the world that
Artsakh [Karabakh] was, is and will always be Armenian, and that we
are ready to defend the country of our ancestors and do everything
for this country to be more developed and more accessible for the
Armenian people from day to day."