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News release Eth-Can Millennium Countdown |
A Member of the Ethiopian Millennium Festival National Council in Canada in cooperation with the Ethiopian Embassy in Canada held a meeting in Toronto on Saturday March 31, 2007 and established an Ethio-Canada Millennium Festival Organizing Committee.
The meeting was attended by prominent individuals, artist and united Eth-Can Community members, friends of Ethiopia across the Great Toronto Area (G.T.A).
At its maiden session committee members discussed and then agreed the objectives of the Organizing Committee to be as follows:
1) To introduce the purpose of the Ethiopian Millennium Festival to main stream Canadian Society, government & non-government agencies
2) To encourage all Eth-Can Diaspora and friends of Ethiopia to travel to and celebrate this historical event in Ethiopia .
3) To promote Ethiopia ’s National heritage by working positively so as to give Ethiopia ’s image the long overdue facelift which, no doubt, would enhance the flow of tourism and inward investment.
4) Eth-Can Festival Committee in Toronto and Ethiopian Embassy in Canada will make a determined effort to make the necessary preparations to commemorate this once in a life time historical event by celebrating the Ethiopian Millennium in a manner that would cultivate the patchwork nature of our Ethiopia ness in Toronto in the presence of Eth-Can diasporas Eth-Can Communities and friends of Ethiopia in the Great Toronto Area.
E.N.M.F.C. member
Mohammed Ahmed
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