AZG Armenian Daily #205, 27/10/2006
Diaspora
HEAD OF ROMANIAN-ARMENIAN COMMUNITY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE OF ROMANIA
IN EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Prime minister of Romania, Cãlin Popescu-Tãriceanu, has elected
senator Varuzhan Voskanian, head of the Romania’s Armenian community,
to represent his country at the European Commission. Senator
Voskanian, 48, is a mathematician and also runs the Senate’s Committee
on Finances and Budget, the Associated Press reports. Voskanian’s
candidacy is still to be confirmed by José Manuel Barroso, President
of the European Commission. Varuzhan Voskanian will take the office
as soon as Romania joins the EU in January 1 2007.
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