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March 24 2005
CILICIA ARMENIAN SAILER TO CONTINUE VOYAGE MAY 9
24.03.2005 06:53
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Leaving the Venetian port, Cilicia Armenian sailing
ship will continue its voyage May 9, 2005, Arminfo news agency
reported. As Cilicia captain and Ayas Club Chairman Karen Balayan
noted at today~Rs press conference, the stay of Cilicia in European
and Near Eastern seaports was marked with arousing interest towards
the history of Armenia, revival of the social life of the Armenian
Diaspora. Armenian sailors, having only the experience of sailing the
Lake Sevan, mastered the Black and Mediterranean, Marmara and Aegean
Seas. An exhibition devoted to the 20-th anniversary of Ayas Club.
This April Cilicia voyage will be presented in a documentary. In 2006
after the third stage of the expedition, the route of which is not
determined yet, the sailer will be delivered to Armenia. After that
the opening of the Sea Museum and the issue of Navigation Pages of
Armenia book are planned. Karen Balayan specially thanked Armenian
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian for the diplomatic support to the
expedition.
March 24 2005
CILICIA ARMENIAN SAILER TO CONTINUE VOYAGE MAY 9
24.03.2005 06:53
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Leaving the Venetian port, Cilicia Armenian sailing
ship will continue its voyage May 9, 2005, Arminfo news agency
reported. As Cilicia captain and Ayas Club Chairman Karen Balayan
noted at today~Rs press conference, the stay of Cilicia in European
and Near Eastern seaports was marked with arousing interest towards
the history of Armenia, revival of the social life of the Armenian
Diaspora. Armenian sailors, having only the experience of sailing the
Lake Sevan, mastered the Black and Mediterranean, Marmara and Aegean
Seas. An exhibition devoted to the 20-th anniversary of Ayas Club.
This April Cilicia voyage will be presented in a documentary. In 2006
after the third stage of the expedition, the route of which is not
determined yet, the sailer will be delivered to Armenia. After that
the opening of the Sea Museum and the issue of Navigation Pages of
Armenia book are planned. Karen Balayan specially thanked Armenian
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian for the diplomatic support to the
expedition.