YEREVAN, MAY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. On May 21, the 14th congress of the Writers' Union of Armenia reelected Levon Ananian Chairman of the Writers' Union of Armenia with 294 "for" and 1 "against" votes. Only L.Ananian's candidature was nominated for the post of the Chairman of Writers' Union of Armenia. The Union members said that they appreciate Levon Ananian's work though he also had some faults during these 4 years. The majority of Union members emphasized that it's time that L.Ananian should speak about the literary process as no literature is created by only organization work. The reelected Chairman of the Writers' Union of Armenia mentioned that he would like a competition to be. "If someone submitted his program I would vote for him." According to him, all those intending to nominate their candidatures didn't want to enter this competition as they weren't sure that the writers' community would support them. Election of administration of the Writers' Union of Armenia was held, as well as the revised variant of regulations of Writers' Union of Armenia was adopted. According to the new regulations, henceforward the elections of Chairman of the Writers' Union of Armenia will be held once in 5 years against the previous 4 years. Before the elections of the Chairman and administration of the Writers' Union of Armenia the writers made speeches and reports on the current state of the Armenian literature.

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