Turkey, Estonia Mark First Ascent To Mount Ararat

TURKEY, ESTONIA MARK FIRST ASCENT TO MOUNT ARARAT

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
28.09.2009 20:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 4-6, Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet
will be in Turkey on an official visit. On October 5-6, he is scheduled
to meet with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davudoglu in Ankara and
State Minister for EU Affairs Egemen Bagis. Parties will conduct talks
over Estonian-Turkish bilateral ties, as well as EU-Turkey relations.

On October 4, FM del Paet and Turkey’s Minister of Culture Ertogrul
Gunay will participate in the opening of exhibition in "Ishak-Pasha"
castle in Bayazet. The exhibition is dedicated to the 180th anniversary
of first ascent to Mount Ararat by Estonian scholar, Professor of
Physics and President of Tartusk University Johann Jacob Friedrich
Wilhelm Parrot and writer Khachatur Abovyan, his apprentice.

Early in the morning on October 5, a group of Estonian and Turkish
alpinists will symbolically repeat Parrot’s route. Ascent to mountain
peak is scheduled for October 9, Estonian Foreign Ministry reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS