KARABAKH PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES KILIKIA SHIP’S CREW ON ROUND-EUROPE
TRIP COMPLETION
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 6 2006
YEREVAN, September 6. /ARKA/. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President
Arkady Ghukasyan congratulated Kilikia ship’s crew on their
round-Europe trip completion.
The vessel has crossed 15 thousand sea miles and 26 European countries
for two years The president found it very symbolic that their trip
completion coincided with the celebration of Karabakh independence’s
15th anniversary and expressed appreciation of the crewmen efforts
to popularize Armenian interests overseas.
"You are genuine heroes", Ghukasyan said.
Armenian ship Kililia came in Batumi, Georgian port, earlier this
month after crossing Black, Mediterranean, Northern and Baltic seas.
The vessel repeated Armenian mediaeval merchants’ route The ship will
be brought to Yerevan and put at the central square.
In spring, the vessel will be moved to Lake Sevan for further
reconstruction into a museum.
Kilikia was constructed on mediaeval design. Facilities, clothes,
meal and sailors’navigation devises aboard the ship are similar to
those used by ancient Kilikian merchants. M.V.-0—