YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The founding director of the international festival "Golden Apricot", film-maker Harutyun Khachatrian has become the 2007 recipient of the Prince Klaus Fund Award. On December 14, the respresentative of the Dutch embassy will hand the award certificate and a monetary prize of 25 thousand euros to the Armenian film-maker. H. Khachatrian told NT correspondent that he was given an award of the Price Klaus Fund for promoting the dialog on conflicts and cultures. According to him, every year this award is conferred on workers of the cultural sphere who have contributed to development of democracy and arts. To recap, H. Khacharian is the second Armenian artist to receive this high award of the Netherlands. In 2005, the actor Mikael Poghosian received a Prince Klaus Fund Award for satirical characters created by him on the stage and screen.

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