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 Armenian Ministry of Culture has officially invited Colombian eminent writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Armenia, Ministry speaker Gayane Durgaryan told Panorama.am.

An initiative group is created in Facebook social network which aims to invite great writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Armenia. The group has applied to Hasmik Pogosyan, Minister of Culture of Armenia with an official letter for the invitation, which reads.
“Respected Minister, we are informed that UNESCO has granted Yerevan as Book Capital in 2012. In this respect we’d like Armenia to host world-known Columbian writer, Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The initiative group has more than 2500 members. Now we apply to You and ask You to send an official invitation to Garcia Marquez.”

Writer, translator Vardan Fereshetyan has hailed the initiative, but is little hopeful Marquez will come: “He has some health problems, he may not come. But he has recently visited Moscow, hence, maybe he’ll come,” writer told Panorama.am.