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    AGBU Press Office
    55 East 59th Street
    New York, NY 10022-1112
    Phone: 212.319.6383, x118
    Fax: 212.319.6507
    Email: [email protected]
    Website: www.agbu.org

    PRESS RELEASE

    Monday, March 2, 2009

    AGBU Europe Partners With Spanish Armenian Organization

    On January 17, 2009, Spanish Armenians and their supporters from across
    Europe, 150 people in total, attended an AGBU-ACAB (Armenian Cultural
    Association of Barcelona) partnership event followed by a gala dinner on
    the magnificent premises of NH Podium Hotel in downtown Barcelona.

    The evening featured the presentation of AGBU and ACAB goals, activities
    and projects, as well as an Armenian music concert and an Armenian
    cuisine tasting. ACAB had also organized an exhibition of photographs
    depicting their activities, in addition to paintings and handcrafts from
    the local ACAB-organized Armenian Saturday School.

    The launch event formally marked the expansion of the world's largest
    Armenian nonprofit organization into one of the major countries of the
    European Union, as well as the continuation of the partnership between
    AGBU and ACAB.

    For the last two years, AGBU and ACAB have been developing a mutually
    beneficial relationship that began in April 2006 during the first AGBU
    Project Exchange & Development Seminar (PEDS) in Brussels, Belgium.

    ACAB, with AGBU's support, runs an Armenian Saturday School for Spanish
    Armenian youth and has organized various activities in Barcelona, which
    contribute to the preservation of the Armenian identity and culture.

    Alexis Govciyan, AGBU Europe chairman, explains the goal of AGBU's
    Spanish partnership: "AGBU is extending its activities to Spain, because
    the presence of global Armenian organizations seem necessary in a
    country with a newly established Armenian community. Moreover, Spain
    plays an important political role in the European Union."

    Gor Abgaryan, ACAB chairman, also applauded his organization's evolving
    relationship with AGBU: "The presence of the AGBU Europe in Barcelona
    opens new perspectives for the friendship between Catalans/Spaniards and
    Armenians, as well as for the future of the Armenian community in
    Catalonia and Spain."

    AGBU Central Board established AGBU Europe on January 1, 2008 to
    coordinate and develop pan-European activities. AGBU Europe promotes
    important initiatives in areas as diverse as academic research,
    conservation and promotion of heritage, culture, education, including
    Armenian language teaching and European policies, as well as training of
    future community leaders, providing children's and youth programs.

    Established in 1906, AGBU (www.agbu.org) is the world's largest
    non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
    preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
    educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually serving some
    400,000 Armenians on five continents.
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