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GERMAN JOURNALIST LEAVES ARMENIA HIGHLY IMPRESSED
ARMENPRESS
11 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 11, ARMENPRESS: In an interview given to "Nordwestradio"
after his three-week pilgrimage to Armenia, German journalist Jochen
Mangelsen has shared his impressions and presented the book "Planet
Armenia".
The journalist noted that he would repeat his travel with pleasure.
"During my former visits I one more time visited Dadivanq in Nagorno
Karabakh, after which I decided to come here again, but as a pilgrim.
>From Etchmiadzin - Center of the Armenian Apostolic Church, from
Vatican I traveled to that beautiful church located between mountains,"
said Mangelsen, according to Armenpress.
He noted that the goal of the pilgrimage was not to get rid
of pains, sins, but "a psychological travel, self-revelation,
self-determination".
"The name of my book has a very simple grounding. From the very first
day I lost my mobile. I had the feeling that I am cut from the world: I
was in a foreign country, I did not know the language and had a little
information. It seemed I was in another planet," the journalist said.
"Planet" name has another explanation as well. "Armenia is not
only the name of the country we see on the map, it is much more:
Armenia also owns its small neighbor Nagorno Karabakh Republic,
Armenian Diaspora, over 10 million Armenians in the whole world,
as well as the Historical Armenia, where Armenians lived till 1915,
and which ispart of Turkey now.
"While traveling in Armenia, one should know its history. We recognize
and condemn the Holocaust, while one more pogrom - the Genocide,
had taken place before that, which we - the German, did not condemn
but welcomed," said the journalist. He left Armenia impressed by kind
attitude and hospitability.
From: Baghdasarian
ARMENPRESS
11 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 11, ARMENPRESS: In an interview given to "Nordwestradio"
after his three-week pilgrimage to Armenia, German journalist Jochen
Mangelsen has shared his impressions and presented the book "Planet
Armenia".
The journalist noted that he would repeat his travel with pleasure.
"During my former visits I one more time visited Dadivanq in Nagorno
Karabakh, after which I decided to come here again, but as a pilgrim.
>From Etchmiadzin - Center of the Armenian Apostolic Church, from
Vatican I traveled to that beautiful church located between mountains,"
said Mangelsen, according to Armenpress.
He noted that the goal of the pilgrimage was not to get rid
of pains, sins, but "a psychological travel, self-revelation,
self-determination".
"The name of my book has a very simple grounding. From the very first
day I lost my mobile. I had the feeling that I am cut from the world: I
was in a foreign country, I did not know the language and had a little
information. It seemed I was in another planet," the journalist said.
"Planet" name has another explanation as well. "Armenia is not
only the name of the country we see on the map, it is much more:
Armenia also owns its small neighbor Nagorno Karabakh Republic,
Armenian Diaspora, over 10 million Armenians in the whole world,
as well as the Historical Armenia, where Armenians lived till 1915,
and which ispart of Turkey now.
"While traveling in Armenia, one should know its history. We recognize
and condemn the Holocaust, while one more pogrom - the Genocide,
had taken place before that, which we - the German, did not condemn
but welcomed," said the journalist. He left Armenia impressed by kind
attitude and hospitability.
From: Baghdasarian