EVENT ENTITLED "OUR SHUSHI: REMEMBERING THE PAST AND YEARNING FOR THE FUTURE" IN WASHINGTON

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2010-03-24

YEREVAN, MARCH 24, ARMENPRESS: An event entitled "Our Shushi:
Remembering the Past and Yearning for the Future" was organized on
March 18 in Washington under the patronage of the Armenian Embassy
and All-Armenian Fund’s US East Coast affiliate office.

Media and Information Department of the Armenian Foreign Affairs
Ministry told Armenpress that representatives of American-Armenian
organizations, clergymen, numerous Armenian-Americans partook in the
event, Deputy Chairman of "Lincy" foundation, Director of the United
Armenian Fund Harout Sassounyan was present, too.

In his welcoming speech Ambassador Tatul Margaryan, attaching great
importance to the activity of the All-Armenian Fund in the last 17
years, noted that it has not only a material, but also a moral value.

In the first hard, dark and cold years of consolidation of the
Armenian state system, the fund’s activity raised hope in Armenian
people reminding that Armenia is not lonely, that all the Armenians
are unified.

Afterward Executive Director of the fund Irina Lazaryan made the guests
acquainted with the fund’s activity and programs, which included the
educational, healthcare and agriculture spheres, as well as presented
the restoration programs of Shushi.

A short-length videotape dedicated to the living conditions and needs
of Shushi residents was shown.