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21 February 2001 - 16:01 AMT

EUROPEAN INTER-PARLIAMENTARY ORTHODOX ASSEMBLY HAS PROVED ITS VITALITY, SPEAKER OF ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT THINKS

YEREVAN, February 21. /Mediamax/. The chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Armen Khachatrian, speaking at the international conference entitled “The church, state, society and crisis of liberal doctrine of world reconstruction”, which began today in Yerevan, stated that the European Inter-parliamentary Orthodox Assembly has proved its urgency and vitality in the course of years of its activity.
The speaker of the Armenian parliament noted in his greeting speech that the European Inter-parliamentary Orthodox Assembly “has become a guarantor of consolidation of common spiritual, political and economic space of coreligionist people and sovereign states, historically developing within the frames of oriental-Christian traditional heritage”.
The organizers of this international conference are the National Assembly of Armenia, the European Inter-parliamentary Orthodox Assembly and the International fund of orthodox people’s union.
The European Inter-parliamentary Orthodox Assembly was established at the constituent assembly in the Athens in 1993 on the initiative of Russia and Greece. The full members of the organization are Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldavia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Czech and Finland. –0–