MARCH FOR HUMANITY AMERICAN ARMENIAN ORGANIZATION MEMBERS VISIT RA EMBASSY TO U.S.
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 20 2006
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Members of the
March for Humanity American Armenian organization visited on November
15 the Embassy of Armenia to the U.S. and met with Ambassador Tatul
Margarian as well as with the Embassy staff.
The group members organized a march from Los Angeles to Washington
and, going through 12 states (almost 5 thousand km), organized
demonstrations in 11 big cities of the U.S. from June to November of
this year to draw attention at the importance of the international
recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and
Information Department, the group members are students of higher
education institutions of Los Angeles. During the march they organized
meetings at educational institutions of the states, presenting people
of the same age the necessity of recognition of the Armenian Genocide,
preventing new genocides, especially the Darfur genocide. Owing
to the march, the problem of the international recognition of the
Armenian Genocide was covered by local periodicals and TV companies
of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio.
The march was over on November 15 with the march from the White House
to Congress after what the participants met with Congressmen Frank
Pallone and Joe Knollenberg, Co-Chairmen of the Congress Armenian
Caucus.