YEREVAN, August 19 (Noyan Tapan). American-Armenian actress Mary-Roze Abusefian (Lusine Shiraz) thinks that the organization of "One Nation, One Culture" first Pan-Armenian festival is a fine idea, but she doesn't agree with the festival's title. She said about it during the August 18 press conference, stressing that the festival should have been just called Pan-Armenian, without mentioning "One Nation", because this slogan is insulting for the Diaspora. According to her, "every Diasporan-Armenian thinks could it be that we don't have one nation?" Mary-Roze Abusefian, who performed at the National Academic Theater after G. Sundukian the day before with her "Life and Love" mono-play within the framework of the festival, mentioned that the festival gave her an opportunity to perform before the native spectators once again. It should be mentioned that Mary-Roze Abusefian graduated from the Yerevan Art Theater Institute and worked at the Yerevan Dramatic Theater. She has lived in San Fransisco since 1983, where she established the National Theater in 1996. She performed in a number of countries of the world with her mono-plays. Though the actress thinks that Yerevan changed a lot during the recent years, according to her, the changes aren't quite positive, and she can't say that Yerevan became nicer. "Nevertheless bad things prevail over good things. And we easily lost the achievements of our art," mentioned Mary-Roze Abusefian.

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