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    ARMENIAN POET'S HOUSE IN TBILISI TO BECOME CULTURAL CENTER

    news.am
    January 31, 2012 | 14:49

    YEREVAN. - Once Armenian Gyumri city Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan purchases
    the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan's house in the Georgian
    capital Tbilisi, it will become an Armenian-Georgian-or simply a
    literary, cultural, and educational-center, Lori Patriotic Union
    Chairman-and Armenian State Language Inspectorate Chief-Sergo Yeritsyan
    stated during a press conference on Tuesday, adding that Tbilisi City
    Hall expressed readiness to renovate the house.

    Reflecting on the purchase price, Writers' Union Chairman Levon Ananyan
    noted that 1m2 is worth $ 800-1,300 in that area. "I will provide
    the required amount," Vardan Ghukasyan has said, according to Ananyan.

    In her turn, Hovhannes Tumanyan's granddaughter Irma Safrastbekyan
    informed with delight that the problem is resolved, and that their
    family will no longer deal with this matter.

    To note, Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan has signed a note of obligation
    to purchase Hovhannes Tumanyan's house in Tbilisi.

    As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the ruling coalition's
    Prosperous Armenia Party Chairman, businessman Gagik Tsarukyan has
    no intentions to purchase Hovhannes Tumanyan's house in Tbilisi,
    Tsarukyan's spokesperson Khachik Galstyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am,
    refuting the media rumors on the purchase.

    Armenian News-NEWS.am tried to clarify what the Ministry of Culture's
    conclusion was after the Armenian delegation, led by Writers'
    Union Chairman Levon Ananyan, recently visited Tbilisi. The Ministry
    responded that the house already has a buyer who is going to grant it
    to the Armenian community, but on the condition that it will later
    be turned into a cultural center. The future of the house also was
    discussed in the meeting convened at PM Tigran Sargsyan's residence
    on Jan. 26.

    Tumanyan's house could have been sold. Part of it was purchased by
    a Georgian businessman in the 1990s, who was going to sell it to
    the Turkish-Georgian Geo Turan company. As a result, the company
    intended to turn it into a hostel for Turkish citizens. The company
    asked Tumanyan's great-grandson Alen Tumanyan to sell the other part
    of the house, but this was rejected.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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