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ACYPL selects Ardashes Kassakhian for Africa exchange program
August 23, 2012 - 12:28 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The American Council of Young Political Leaders
(ACYPL) has invited City Clerk Ardashes `Ardy' Kassakhian to
participate in an international exchange program to South Africa and
Namibia this September.
According to Asbarez, he will be part of a seven-member, bipartisan
delegation to South Africa and Namibia, serving as a young political
leader representing the United States. Participants in the program
must be nominated by a member of U.S. Congress or an alumnus of the
program. Delegates have the unique opportunity to meet with elected
officials at the national, regional and local levels, as well as
policy makers, business and community leaders in the host countries.
`I have always had a strong interest and admiration for the election
processes in South Africa, particularly in the post-Apartheid era,'
said Kassakhian, who has a framed ballot from that historic election
when Nelson Mandela ran for President hanging in his office at City
Hall. `I am equally interested in the elections processes in a
relatively young nation like Namibia which has only been a state since
1990,' he added.
Based in Washington, ACYPL is a nonpartisan NGO that is
internationally recognized as the pre-eminent catalyst for introducing
rising political and policy professionals to international affairs.
August 23, 2012 - 12:28 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The American Council of Young Political Leaders
(ACYPL) has invited City Clerk Ardashes `Ardy' Kassakhian to
participate in an international exchange program to South Africa and
Namibia this September.
According to Asbarez, he will be part of a seven-member, bipartisan
delegation to South Africa and Namibia, serving as a young political
leader representing the United States. Participants in the program
must be nominated by a member of U.S. Congress or an alumnus of the
program. Delegates have the unique opportunity to meet with elected
officials at the national, regional and local levels, as well as
policy makers, business and community leaders in the host countries.
`I have always had a strong interest and admiration for the election
processes in South Africa, particularly in the post-Apartheid era,'
said Kassakhian, who has a framed ballot from that historic election
when Nelson Mandela ran for President hanging in his office at City
Hall. `I am equally interested in the elections processes in a
relatively young nation like Namibia which has only been a state since
1990,' he added.
Based in Washington, ACYPL is a nonpartisan NGO that is
internationally recognized as the pre-eminent catalyst for introducing
rising political and policy professionals to international affairs.