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    ANCA-ER director joins Baroness Cox for visit to Armenia, Artsakh

    September 21, 2013 - 10:28 AMT


    PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian National Committee of America Eastern
    Region (ANCA-ER) Executive Director Michelle Hagopian is in Armenia
    accompanying Baroness Caroline Cox on her 80th trip to Armenia and
    Nagorno Karabakh, the ANCA-ER reported.

    Baroness Cox is the 2012 ANCA Freedom Award recipient and a major
    champion for Karabakh, having opened up a rehabilitation center there
    through her nonprofit, Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). She's
    also a member of the British House of Lords.

    Lady Cox asked Hagopian to attend when the pair met at the ANCA-ER
    Banquet in December 2012.

    `It such a thrill and an honor to join Baroness Cox on her 80th visit
    to Armenia and Artsakh. Her dedication and love for the Armenian
    people show in everything she does. We're truly lucky to have a
    humanitarian like her fighting for our cause,' Hagopian stated.

    `It's my first time journeying to both Armenia and Artsakh, and it is
    a pleasure to do so with Lady Cox.'

    Hagopian arrived in Yerevan on September 20 and will be staying until
    September 27. Members of her HART-United Kingdom team and other
    colleagues of Cox are along for this trip as well. Among the items on
    the group's itinerary include visiting church clergy, meeting elected
    officials, and traveling to Nagorno Karabakh by helicopter, which was
    a gift provided from the Armenian government in honor of her 80th
    trip.

    The Lady Cox Rehabilitation Center is internationally recognized as a
    `Center of Excellence,' disseminating its wide-ranging therapeutic
    repertoire far beyond Karabakh to other countries throughout the South
    Caucasus. `The spirit of Armenia, which not only survives but creates
    beauty from the ashes of destruction, is spreading hope and healing
    for people with special needs not only in Karabakh and Armenia but far
    beyond these lands,' stated Lady Cox.

    Baroness Cox's humanitarian aid work has taken her on many missions to
    conflict zones, including Nagorno Karabakh, Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda,
    Burma, and Indonesia. She has also been instrumental in helping to
    change the former Soviet Union's policies for orphaned and abandoned
    children from institutional to foster family care.

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