ARMENIAN CONTINGENT PARTICIPATES IN "SOLIDARITY EXPRESS"
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2009/08/26 | 15:58
Armenians will be participating in the second annual "Solidarity
Express" project marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of
World War II, taking its participants to the historic salt mine of
Wieliczka, the former Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz,
Warsaw and Gdansk, where the first shots of the war were fired and
the Solidarity movement was born.
The participants include students of Cambridge, Oxford and Georgetown
Universities in Britain and the United States, NGO activists from
Amnesty International and the Montenegro Committee of the Helsinki
Foundation, young journalists from Belgium, and people from Armenia,
Cuba, Israel, Mexico, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova.
Poland has a 30-strong group.
In addition to the sightseeing, the programme includes meetings with
former president Lech Wa³esa, MEP Ro¿a Thun and the famous explorer
Marek Kamiñski.