RA FM HANDED ARMENIAN FLAG TO MOUNTAINEERS
Pan Armenian News
04.05.2005 07:57
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian met the
Armenian mountaineers, who are going to climb Elbrus Mountain, RA MFA
press service reported. Vardan Oskanian handed the mountaineers the
Armenian flag, which will be hoisted on the peak of Elbrus. Armenian
mountaineers headed by Hayk Tonoian will climb Elbrus within the
international group of 500 people. The expedition is dedicated to the
60-th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the
UN 60-th anniversary. Earlier the Armenian mountaineers conquered
the peaks of Tien Shan, Pamirs and the Alaska Mountain Chain. Hayk
Tonoian climbed Ararat Mountain in 1991 and 2001.