Moldovan parliament speaker receives award from USA
16:11 | 29.01.2019 Category: Official
Chisinau, 29 January /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu has received an award on behalf of the U.S. authorities.
The cultural pluralism award was offered to Andrian Candu by Chairman of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad Paul Packer, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.
The distinction was awarded for outstanding contribution to the promotion of actions of the Holocaust’s remembrance, the historic truth and cultural preservation of sites for the preservation of the American heritage.
The award was given at a roundtable titled, Remembrance of the Holocaust in Moldova, held at the parliament today and organized in partnership with the Jewish Community of Moldova and the Moldovan government.
The Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad was set up by President of the United States Ronald Reagan in 1985, in order to promote the preservation and restoration of the monuments associated with the history of the United States. In the last years, the Commission’s work has been focused on objects placed in the Eastern Europe, destroyed on the period of the Holocaust.
