Culture: Birth anniversaries of Komitas and Hovhannes Tumanyan included in UNESCO calendar

Emil Lazarian 2017 
Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
 Tuesday


Birth anniversaries of Komitas and Hovhannes Tumanyan included in
UNESCO calendar



YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 14, ARMENPRESS. The 39th sitting of the UNESCO
General Conference, which is proceeding in Paris in the headquarters
of the organization, adopted a decision to include the 150th
anniversaries of Komitas and Hovhannes Tumanyan in the 2018-2019
UNESCO calendar of renowned people and important events, the foreign
ministry told ARMENPRESS.

UNESCO approved the bids of Armenia, which was presented with support
from France and Germany.

Since 1998, 23 anniversaries submitted from Armenia have been included
in the UNESCO list.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS