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    $ 30 MILLION PLEDGE AT A DINNER EVENT

    Lragir.am
    10:56:15 - 04/11/2008

    On November 1 a charity dinner was organized in Yerevan, which was
    dedicated to Telethon 2008 of Armenia Foundation. During this event
    30 million dollars was pledged. For the first time in 16 years of
    history of the Foundation the telethon was marked by the display
    of will and potential of about 120 Armenian businessmen of Armenia
    and Russia. The donated sums will be spent on the rural development
    program in Armenia and Artsakh, Armenia Foundation reports.

    Of the members of the board of trustees the presidents of Armenia and
    Nagorno-Karabakh, the Catholicos, the prime minister and speaker of
    Armenia, the president of the Central bank, ministers, the president
    of the Union of Producers and Businessmen, as well as the minister
    of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan participated.

    Larger donations were pledged by Samvel Karapetyan, Sergey
    Hambardzumyan, Gagik Tsarukyan, Seiran Karapetyan, Genady Stepanyan,
    Ashot Khachaturyan, Mikhail Baghdasarov, Samvel Alexanyan, Barsegh
    Beglaryan, Tigran Arzakansyan, the Copper and Molybdenum Factory of
    Zangezour, Michael Vardanyan Foundation, Eduardo Eurnekian Group,
    ARG, Karabakh Telecom. The sums and names of benefactors will be
    announced on the day of the telethon and will be published in the
    press, Armenia Foundation reports.
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