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    MORE THAN 90 DIASPORAN WRITERS INTEND TO PARTICIPATE IN THIRD ALL-ARMENIAN CONFERENCE OF WRITERS

    Noyan Tapan
    Armenians Today
    Mar 15 2006

    ANTILIAS, MARCH 15, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Preparatory
    work for the third All-Armenian Conference of Writers to be held at
    the Mayravank Complex of Antilias on April 6-9 is currently being
    carried out in accordance with the schedule. More than 90 writers of
    Armenian descend from Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus,
    France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, the UK, Australia, Georgia,
    the US and Canada have expressed their intention to participate
    in the event. The Unions of Writers of Armenia and Artsakh will be
    represented by 50 writers.

    According to the press release of the commission on conference
    preparation, which was provided to NT by the press service of the
    Catholicosate of the Great Cilician House, the Armenian and Diasporan
    Armenian writers - participants of the conference will arrive in
    Lebanon on April 5. The official opening ceremony will take place on
    April 6, while the closing ceremony - late April 10.

    Catholicos of the Great Cilician House Aram I will attend the opening
    and closing sittings of the event.

    The Armenian and Diasporan writers and literary critics will make
    reports on 6 themes during the conference entitled "The Armenian
    Literature in the Face of Global Challenges". The reports will be
    followed by opinion exchanges and discussions.

    The first two All-Armenian conferences of writers were held in 2002
    and 2004 in Yerevan on the initiative of the Union of Writers of
    Armenia. In response to the invitation-proposal of Catholicos of
    the Great Cilician House Aram I to convene the third All-Armenian
    Conference of Writers at the Mayravank Complex of Antilias (Lebanon),
    the Board of the Union of Writers of Armenia made a decision to hold
    the conference in the spring of 2006 at the Mayravank of Antilias
    under the high patronage of Catholicos Aram I and with the necessary
    financial and material resources. A steering committee was set up. It
    is composed of Bishop Narek Alemezian, Pepo Simonian, Zhirayr Danelian,
    Sargis Kirakosian and Aram Sepetjian.
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