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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23, ARMENPRESS. The Union of Armenians of Ukraine awarded the Active Figure of Diaspora Order to Gevorg Petrosyan, the Consul General of Armenia in Odessa, Ukraine, AnalitikaUA.net reports.
The award was bestowed by the Head of the Union of Armenians of Ukraine Vilen Shatvoryan on February 22.
The event was attended by consuls general of countries represented in Odessa, representatives of the Union of Armenians of Ukraine, including the representative of the union in Kherson Tigran Mkrtchyan, the union representative in Kropivnitsky Tigran Khachatryan, Odessa community leader Tigran Harutyunyan, the Armenian Ambassador to Ukraine Vladimir Karapetyan, the Prelate of the Diocese of Ukraine of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bishop Markos Hovhannisyan and others.
The award was in recognition of Petrosyan’s productive work for strengthening and developing the Armenian-Ukrainian relations, the union said.