EVENTS DEDICATED TO 91st ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE HELD IN
ROMANIA
BUCHAREST, APRIL 21, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Various events to
commemorate the 91st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide are being
held in Romania. The presentation of the book “History of a Geocide
Passed by in Long Silence” of Romanian Armenian author Sergio Selian
(the book was published in Romanian by the Ararat publishing house of
the Armenian Union of Romania) took place in the Union of Writers of
Romania on April 19. Varizhan Oskanian, member of the Romanian Senate,
Chairman of the Standing Financial and Bedgetary Commission, Eghishe
Sargsian, the Armenian Ambassador to Romania, and Mikael Gazazian,
editor of the newspaper “Ararat” of the Armenian Union of Romania,
made speeches on the Armenian Genocide at the event. According to the
RA MFA Press and Information Department, Atom Egoyan’s film “Ararat”
was demonstrated in Bucharest and Constantsa, as well as a photo
exhibition dedicated to the Armenian Genocide was organized, during
which speeches were delivered by a number of high-ranking Romanian
officials, particularly by Danut Kuletu, Governor of Constantsa, as
well as by the Armenian Ambassador Eghishe Sargsian, Head of the
Romanian Armenian diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop
Tirayr Martikian and others.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
