To a respected teacher and dearest friend of the Armenian people, Ms. Ching Hai

There are instances in the life of each person, which, due to their spiritual value, meaningfulness and unique integrity, leave a deep impression on the human heart. Like a spring thunder they bring rain from stormy clouds to a field full of flowers, shallow rivers to satiate thirsty nature.

Your visit to Armenia was of this kind, a visit to a country in want of kindness, a country, nonetheless proud, compassionate and sympathetic, which has suffered a great deal in the course of its severe and difficult 2,500 year history.

Your charitable visit was like an enlivening spring rain that filled with warmth the heart of every Armenian who had the good fortune to see and communicate with You - a human soul unique in its nature. You are a person, who, with the universal soul in Her little body, is able to condense the purity of asceticism, the ideal model of honesty of spirit, the self-sacrifice of a Homo Sapiens who has entrusted Her life to God.

God 's precepts of charity in Your heart were visited on old people forgotten by the powers that be of this life, little orphans who thirst for love, the Museum of Armenian Genocide, the dilapidated Apostolic Church, and the victims of natural disaster.

And whenever You wanted, the imperative call of Your charitable soul was extremely jolting.

Charity You gave for the sake of humanity, for the sake of merciful kindness, kindness which, according to God's precepts, can save human souls. And there can be no higher appreciation of Your activities than the hearty "God Save You" on behalf of the staff of the Yerevan Chamber Music Hall of Komitas.

Let Your life devoted to God be as fruitful as the lace knitted by You, as picturesque as Your paintings, as bright as Your jewelry, as pure as Your heart, and as universal as Your songs.

With the deepest respect of the staff of the Yerevan Chamber Music Hall of Komitas and me personally,