ONE OF ROMANIAN JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ ETHNIC ARMENIAN

PanARMENIAN.Net - One of the three journalists kidnapped in Iraq March 28, Romania Liberia

newspaper correspondent Eduard Ovidiu Ohanesian, 36, is ethnic

Armenian, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia reported. The other

two are correspondents of Prima TV Channel - Marie Jeanne Ion, 32, and

cameraman Sorin Dumitru Miscoci, 30. They were taken hostage on the second

day after the meeting of Romanian President Traian Basescu with Romanian

servicemen in Iraq. After being kidnapped the Romanian journalists managed

to get in touch with the TV channel and to report the happening. Traian

Basescu stated that Romania will do its best to return the journalists to

the fatherland. The kidnappers have not made any demands in exchange for

freeing the prisoners yet.


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