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    Gerard Cafesjian and Kirk Kirkoryan have been awarded with great
    humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Fridtjoff Nansen medal.

    Armenia TV
    January 6, 2005


    Prominent American-Armenian benefactor Gerard Cafesjian has been awarded
    with the Fridtjoff Nansen medal for his active socio-political
    participation, establishment of humanitarian principles, investments in
    the motherland, namely for reconstruction of the ''Cascade'' museum,
    and for his active participation in all nation-wide projects. Fridtjoff
    Nansen Fund's chairman also delivered that . another prominent
    Armenian-American benefactor and businessman Kirk Kirkoryan has also
    been awarded with the same medal for reconstruction of the Armenian
    economy and desaster zone, for reconstruction of cultural objects, for
    unprecedented number of highway-construction projects and for financing
    a great deal of other humanitarian initiatives. ''This once again
    testifies that nothing is left unnoticable by people who live in
    Armenia.'' Said Felix Bakhchinyan, chairman of the '' Fridtjoff Nansen
    Fund''. The fund functions for about ten years. During this period it
    has awarded with medals several prominent people: among them, grandson
    of the great humanitarian, architect Aidil Nansen, Russian
    ex-prime-minister Nikolay Rijkov, president of the Norwegian National
    Academy Bjarne Vaaler, presidendts of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, the
    prime-minister of Armenia, defense ministers of Armenia and Nagorno
    Karabakh, writers Eduartas Majelaitis, Silva Kaputikyan, Zori Balayan,
    president of the Natioanal Academy of RA Fadey Sarkissyan and so
    forth. Chairman of the Fridtjoff Nansen Fund congratulates the great
    patriots on the occasion of beeing awarded with the medal of the Nobel
    Price recipient Fridtjoff Nansen. Felix Bakhchinyan also congratulates
    them both on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas. Please, find
    underneath the texts of the certificates, which were awared to Gerard
    Cafesjian and Kirk Kirkoryan.

    Honorable Mr Gerard Cafesjian, for your fruitfull activities conducted
    towards establishing of social-political and humanitarian principles, as
    well as for your unforgettable merit put within development of the
    republic's economy and for your most active participation in all
    nation-wide projects, you are being granted with the comemorative medal
    of the great humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize recepient Fridtjoff
    Nansen.

    Honorable Mr Kirk Kirkoryan, for your fruitfull activities conducted
    towards establishing of social-political and humanitarian principles, as
    well as for your unforgettable merit in the motherland's development,
    reconstruction of the desaster zone, road-construction and renovation of
    cultural centers, you are being granted with the comemorative medal of
    the great humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize recepient Fridtjoff Nansen.

    High Comissioner of the League of Natioans, recipient the Nobel Peace
    Prize, National Hero of Norway, physician, polar explorer and great
    friend of the Armenian people Fridtjoff Nansen encountered numbers of
    Armenian refugees, who escaped the Great Genocide committed by the
    Turks. He also has implemented a prolific work in introducing the
    Armenian problem to the world. It is well-known that Nansen has given
    passports with his own signature to those Armenians who had no
    documents. And those passports were accepted in many countries. n those
    times the great humanitarian helped the people of Povoljie to escape
    starvation. He sent to Russia 4000 trains packed with food, as a result
    of which, 7 million people escaped death. Today one in every 5 Russians
    is the generation of those who once were saved by Fridtjoff Nansen. In
    1925 Nansen visited Armenia in order to learn personally the refugees'
    situation. He understood that the super-powers and the League of Nations
    once again have deceived Armenians and himself. After this, he left for
    the United States, hoping to collect donations. Nansen delivered
    lectures in all Universities, receiving money in return. And in the
    end, in the streets of big cities, the citizen of the world, Fridtjoff
    Nansen, began to ask for money for Armenian refugees.
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