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IF BUILDING OF WRITERS' UNION OF ARMENIA IS SOLD, I'LL RESIGN, UNION CHAIRMAN STATES
Noyan Tapan
Apr 19 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. "The 3rd All-Armenian Conference of
writers was held in Beirut at the high level. We can surely say that
these conferences give possibility to world-spread Armenian writers not
only to join but also to know and value values created in two creative
literary fields." Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Writers' Union
of Armenia stated about this at the April 17 press-conference. 150
writers from Armenia, Artsakh, Javakhk and different colonies of
Diaspora participated in the conference taken place in Beirut on April
6-9. They had meetings with representatives of the Armenian community
of Lebanon as well as with the Minister of Culture of that country. The
Armenian writers proposed to the Minister to place prominent writer
Avetik Isahakian's monument in the center of Beirut as well as to
held a festival of Armenian poetry there and a festival of Lebanese
poetry in Yerevan. At the conference held under the patronage of Aram
I Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia it was decided to held
the next All-Armenian Writers' Conference in Yerevan, and the 5th
one in Aleppo. It was mentioned that a council of translation of the
Armenian literature was created, it was also envisaged to found a fund
for publication of children's and fiction literature. L.Ananian also
touched upon the news published recently in Armenian press about the
issue that the WUA building will be sold. "The building of the Writers'
Union of Armenia will not be sold, and if such a thing takes place,
I will resing," L.Ananian stated.
Noyan Tapan
Apr 19 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. "The 3rd All-Armenian Conference of
writers was held in Beirut at the high level. We can surely say that
these conferences give possibility to world-spread Armenian writers not
only to join but also to know and value values created in two creative
literary fields." Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Writers' Union
of Armenia stated about this at the April 17 press-conference. 150
writers from Armenia, Artsakh, Javakhk and different colonies of
Diaspora participated in the conference taken place in Beirut on April
6-9. They had meetings with representatives of the Armenian community
of Lebanon as well as with the Minister of Culture of that country. The
Armenian writers proposed to the Minister to place prominent writer
Avetik Isahakian's monument in the center of Beirut as well as to
held a festival of Armenian poetry there and a festival of Lebanese
poetry in Yerevan. At the conference held under the patronage of Aram
I Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia it was decided to held
the next All-Armenian Writers' Conference in Yerevan, and the 5th
one in Aleppo. It was mentioned that a council of translation of the
Armenian literature was created, it was also envisaged to found a fund
for publication of children's and fiction literature. L.Ananian also
touched upon the news published recently in Armenian press about the
issue that the WUA building will be sold. "The building of the Writers'
Union of Armenia will not be sold, and if such a thing takes place,
I will resing," L.Ananian stated.