YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. "The 3rd All-Armenian Conference of writers was held in Beirut at the high level. We can surely say that these conferences give possibility to world-spread Armenian writers not only to join but also to know and value values created in two creative literary fields." Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Armenia stated about this at the April 17 press-conference. 150 writers from Armenia, Artsakh, Javakhk and different colonies of Diaspora participated in the conference taken place in Beirut on April 6-9. They had meetings with representatives of the Armenian community of Lebanon as well as with the Minister of Culture of that country. The Armenian writers proposed to the Minister to place prominent writer Avetik Isahakian's monument in the center of Beirut as well as to held a festival of Armenian poetry there and a festival of Lebanese poetry in Yerevan. At the conference held under the patronage of Aram I Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia it was decided to held the next All-Armenian Writers' Conference in Yerevan, and the 5th one in Aleppo. It was mentioned that a council of translation of the Armenian literature was created, it was also envisaged to found a fund for publication of children's and fiction literature. L.Ananian also touched upon the news published recently in Armenian press about the issue that the WUA building will be sold. "The building of the Writers' Union of Armenia will not be sold, and if such a thing takes place, I will resing," L.Ananian stated.

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