President of the Boxing Federation of Wallonia in the NA

On January 23 the Chairman of the RA NA Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Artak Davtyan had a meeting with Serge Hendrice, President of the Boxing Federation of Wallonia Region of the Kingdom of Belgium and boxer Arsen Sargsyan, our compatriot from Belgium. The member of the Committee, deputy Artur Gevorgyan was also attending the meeting.

Thanking for warm reception the guests presented a project of Armenian-Belgian cooperation in the sphere of boxing, which had been already launched on the previous year in Brussels with the competition of boxing organized by joint efforts of Belgian Armenians and Belgians. The Boxing Federation of Wallonia greatly promoted the organization of the event, and the profit will be directed to the orphanages of Armenia, especially to the help of children of disabilities. The boxer Arsen Sargsyan, our compatriot from Belgium said that they had already managed to be in the orphanages of Armenia with Serge Hendrice, got familiarized with problems and expressed hope that the Armenian-Belgian cooperation in the sphere of boxing would allow making regular such events, and it would be possible to help the Armenian needy children with profits.

The Belgian guests also noted that they were ready to assist the Armenian boxers to go to Belgium and take part in competitions there.

Welcoming the initiative Artak Davtyan has said that a group being involved with protection of the rights of children with disabilities functions in the National Assembly, which closely cooperates with the UNICEF. In his word, the Armenian-Belgian sport cooperation, the aim of which is to help the children of the orphanage, has big perspectives of becoming effective initiative.

The participants of the meeting also discussed other issues connected with cooperation.