One of the three journalists kidnapped in Iraq March 28, Romania Liberia
newspaper correspondent Eduard Ovidiu Ohanesian, 36, is ethnic
Armenian, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia reported. The other
two are correspondents of Prima TV Channel - Marie Jeanne Ion, 32, and
cameraman Sorin Dumitru Miscoci, 30. They were taken hostage on the second
day after the meeting of Romanian President Traian Basescu with Romanian
servicemen in Iraq. After being kidnapped the Romanian journalists managed
to get in touch with the TV channel and to report the happening. Traian
Basescu stated that Romania will do its best to return the journalists to
the fatherland. The kidnappers have not made any demands in exchange for
freeing the prisoners yet.