BRUSSELS’ MANNEKEN PIS TO BE DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL ARMENIAN COSTUME

Tert
Nov 18 2009
Armenia

On November 18, Armenian Ambassador to Belgium and the Netherlands
Avet Adonts met with the bourgmestre of Brussels Freddy Thielemans,
according to a press release issued by the RA Ministry of Foreign
Affairs press and information department today.

Ambassador Adonts and Tilemans exchanged ideas on national diplomacy,
and the importance of direct and first-hand contact among peoples,
noticing that cultural and intellectual arrangements are the best
approach.

An agreement was reached to organize joint events, including ‘Days of
Brussels’ in Yerevan, as well as events such as dressing Manneken Pis,
a famous Brussels landmark of a small statue of a boy that is dressed
in costume several times a week, in traditional Armenian national
dress in Brussels.