"Armenian Congress" established in PolandAugust 20, 2009 - 20:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - RA Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan participated in the founding session of Armenian community of Poland. Meeting in the town of Griffits, representatives from 21 Armenian organizations and Armenian Embassy employees discussed issues and perspectives concerning development of Armenian Diaspora in Poland and cooperation with Armenia. Session elected a community council consisting of 21 representatives. Entrepreneur Karen Hovsepyan was elected as community leader. Upon participants' proposal, new organization was named as "Armenian Congress of Poland", RA Diaspora Ministry's press service reports. Armenian community of Poland has existed since 15th century. According to non-official data, it currently has 25-30 representatives, most of them residing in Warsaw, Krakov, Lodz, Vrotslav, Gdansk, Koszalin, Griffin, Rodon, Kolobzhek and other towns. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |