Lusine Tovmasyan - 17 y.o. - Yerevan

In video clips, they told about their dreams, their thoughts, their goals.

Production of the contest cost about $15,000, given by sponsors. (No government allotment was made for this particular cultural event.) "Let our beauties participate at the contests like this one and worthily present Armenia," Arestakesyan said in opening the ceremonies. Earlier he told a press conference that the pageant's success grows each year, since it started in 1996.

"Every year we sign new agreements and contracts for our participation in different well-known contests," he said. However, before presenting themselves in different parts of the world the girls were trying to attract attention from a jury which included Miss Armenia 1998 and Miss CIS Gohar Harutyunyan, Miss Russia 2002 and Miss Europe 2003 Svetlana Koraliova, experts mainly from CIS countries, Armenian artists as well as one deputy of the National Assembly.

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