Another Armenian boxer, reached the quarterfinal, Harutyun Abramyan (69 kg), lost to the Belarusian representative Alexander Grigorchuk and left the tournament.
Mentor of the Armenian team intends to invite Edgar Manucharyan for the upcoming matches of the qualifying stage of World Championship-2010 against Bosnia and Belgium.
Turkey's refusal to allow the Armenian singer Aram Tigran to be buried in the Kurdish metropole of Diyarbakir has been described by the Society for Threatened Peoples as "revealing chauvinism".