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YEREVAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO NORWEGIAN SCIENTIST AND DIPLOMAT
ITAR-TASS
November 9, 2011 Wednesday 01:28 PM GMT+4
Russia
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store will take part in
celebrations in Yerevan devoted to the 150th anniversary of Fridtjof
Nansen's birth. Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a prominent public
figure, an outstanding Polar researcher and a diplomat.
The Norwegian foreign minister is arriving in Yerevan on an official
visit on Wednesday at the invitation of the Armenian foreign ministry.
A ceremony of cancellation of a postage stamp dedicated to Nansen
will be held on Wednesday. A monument to the celebrated researcher,
diplomat, a prominent figure in humanitarian activities and a big
friend of the Armenian people will be unveiled at the crossroads of
Abovyan and Moskovskaya streets in the center of Yerevan on Wednesday.
A gala concert devoted to the 150th anniversary of Nansen's birth will
be held at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Norwegian
orchestra conductor Terje Mikkelson and his compatriot, trumpet player
Tormod Asgard, will perform with the Armenian National Philharmonic
orchestra.
Visitors to the gala concert will enjoy an exposition of Nansen's
photographs and books about Fridtjof Nansen, who is highly respected
in Armenia for his efforts to help Armenian refugees during the
1915 genocide.
During the visit to Armenia the Norwegian foreign minister will meet
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian Catholicos Garegin II and
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan. The Norwegian minister
is also to meet students and teachers of Yerevan State University
and visit a memorial to the victims of the 1915 genocide, where the
minister will lay a wreath.
Natalia Budur, the Russian author of Nansen's biography, said in her
book that Nansen skied across Greenland, sailed through Arctic ice to
the North Pole and after being an ambassador got down to humanitarian
activities and signed a very important document on the territorial
integrity of Norway.
In 2011 the world celebrates the 150th anniversary of Nansen's birth.
Since 1919 after a period of scientific research in the North and
until 1930 when Nansen died he fully devoted himself to humanitarian
activities.
During a horrible period of famine in the Volga region in Civil War
Nansen made heroic efforts to ensure food and financial aid to Russia
from Europe and the United States and contributed his own funds,
helped solve refugee problems. In 1922 Nansen became a first ever
High Commissioner for refugees.
At the initiative of the International Red Cross the name of Fridtjof
Nansen was given to passports issued to refugees from Russia. This
widely used document gave a new lease of life in the West to Igor
Stravinsky, Sergei Rakhmaninov, Mark Shagal, Anna Pavlova and other
bright representatives of Russian art and culture.
The name of the bright man was given to a lunar crater, islands
of the Franz Josef Land archipelago, mountain peaks in Antarctica,
Tien -Shan and Canada, an island in the Kara Sea. Many streets in
world cities were named after the celebrated man. His name crowns an
annual prize in the field of human rights awarded by the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Nansen Refugee Award was created in 1954 in honor of Fridtjof
Nansen, the legendary Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and
politician.
ITAR-TASS
November 9, 2011 Wednesday 01:28 PM GMT+4
Russia
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store will take part in
celebrations in Yerevan devoted to the 150th anniversary of Fridtjof
Nansen's birth. Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a prominent public
figure, an outstanding Polar researcher and a diplomat.
The Norwegian foreign minister is arriving in Yerevan on an official
visit on Wednesday at the invitation of the Armenian foreign ministry.
A ceremony of cancellation of a postage stamp dedicated to Nansen
will be held on Wednesday. A monument to the celebrated researcher,
diplomat, a prominent figure in humanitarian activities and a big
friend of the Armenian people will be unveiled at the crossroads of
Abovyan and Moskovskaya streets in the center of Yerevan on Wednesday.
A gala concert devoted to the 150th anniversary of Nansen's birth will
be held at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Norwegian
orchestra conductor Terje Mikkelson and his compatriot, trumpet player
Tormod Asgard, will perform with the Armenian National Philharmonic
orchestra.
Visitors to the gala concert will enjoy an exposition of Nansen's
photographs and books about Fridtjof Nansen, who is highly respected
in Armenia for his efforts to help Armenian refugees during the
1915 genocide.
During the visit to Armenia the Norwegian foreign minister will meet
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian Catholicos Garegin II and
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan. The Norwegian minister
is also to meet students and teachers of Yerevan State University
and visit a memorial to the victims of the 1915 genocide, where the
minister will lay a wreath.
Natalia Budur, the Russian author of Nansen's biography, said in her
book that Nansen skied across Greenland, sailed through Arctic ice to
the North Pole and after being an ambassador got down to humanitarian
activities and signed a very important document on the territorial
integrity of Norway.
In 2011 the world celebrates the 150th anniversary of Nansen's birth.
Since 1919 after a period of scientific research in the North and
until 1930 when Nansen died he fully devoted himself to humanitarian
activities.
During a horrible period of famine in the Volga region in Civil War
Nansen made heroic efforts to ensure food and financial aid to Russia
from Europe and the United States and contributed his own funds,
helped solve refugee problems. In 1922 Nansen became a first ever
High Commissioner for refugees.
At the initiative of the International Red Cross the name of Fridtjof
Nansen was given to passports issued to refugees from Russia. This
widely used document gave a new lease of life in the West to Igor
Stravinsky, Sergei Rakhmaninov, Mark Shagal, Anna Pavlova and other
bright representatives of Russian art and culture.
The name of the bright man was given to a lunar crater, islands
of the Franz Josef Land archipelago, mountain peaks in Antarctica,
Tien -Shan and Canada, an island in the Kara Sea. Many streets in
world cities were named after the celebrated man. His name crowns an
annual prize in the field of human rights awarded by the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Nansen Refugee Award was created in 1954 in honor of Fridtjof
Nansen, the legendary Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and
politician.