GREEK NIKEA TO ASSIST SISTER TOWN OF IJEVAN IN COMMUNAL, HEALTHCARE, CULTURE, TOURISM SPHERES
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 23 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Greek Nikea will
provide assistance relating to the development of communal, healthcare,
culture, tourism, sport spheres to the sister town on Ijevan. This was
announced at the May 18 joint press conference of Ijevan Mayor Varuzhan
Nersisian and Nikea Mayor Stelios Benetatos. According to V.Nersisian,
Nikea Mayor’s Office will give equipments to Ijeven town hospital,
will help to buy rubbish-gathering machines for Ijevan, as well as
to organize concerts of dance ensemble of Ijevan art school pupils
and will provide Ijevan’s participation in the sculpture symposium
to be organized in 2006 in Nikea. S.Benetatos in his turn said that
the first steps of cooperation between the sister towns will be taken
in the spheres of tourism and culture. In the respect of development
of cooperation between Nikea and Ijevan he attached importance to
participation of the Armenian community of Nikea in the joint programs,
as it is the Armenian community that was the initiator of establishment
of sister relations between the two towns. To recap, the memorandum
on cooperation between Nikea and Ijevan was signed on September 23
2005. Nearly 3 thousand Armenians live in Nikea, the population of
which is 120 thousand people and more than 15 thousand Armenians live
in the whole Greece. The Armenians settled in Nikea 83 years ago.