Catherine Lich, the UK Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, tells about the famous Scottish writer Robert Burns. Her words are translated by Maria Sadoyan, Communications manager at the British Embassy, the wife of the former UK Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia Charles Lonsdale.
In the center a cook who came from Scotland with haggis he had cooked.
Burns Supper will be organized in Armenia for 14th time this year. The party dedicated to Scottish famous writer Robert Burns is a national holiday for Scotsmen and is celebrated not only in Scotland and the United Kingdom, but also in many countries around the world, where the United Kingdom has embassies.
According to the tradition, a few days before the Burns Supper, haggis, a national Scottish cold dish consisting of a sheep’s offal mixed with suet, is solemnly brought from Scotland and handed over to the UK Ambassador to the given country by the cook who has also come from Scotland with the bagpiper. Certainly, the solemn handover of the haggis is accompanied by bagpipe music.
This year in Armenia, the haggis was handed over to British Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Catherine Lich yesterday during the ceremony in the Khanjyan hall of the Gafesjian Center for the Arts. And tomorrow the Burns party will take place, during which charity fundraising through action, lottery etc. will take place.
As Maria Sadoyan, the Communications Manager at the British Embassy, informed, during the Burns Supper organized last year $27 000 were raised, thanks to which various charity projects have been carried out.
Bagpiper who came from Scotland and the representative of bmi, one of the sponsors of the event
