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    SECOND ALL-ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES KICKS OFF IN ARMENIA

    Arka News Agency, Armenia
    Aug. 17, 2006

    YEREVAN, August 17. /ARKA/. The second all-Armenian Educational
    Conferences kicked off in Armenia. In Yerevan on Thursday during
    the opening ceremony, the RA Minister of Science and Education
    Levon Lazarian said that the conference would be of great practical
    importance, especially taking into consideration the fact that it's
    immediately before the Armenia-Diaspora forum.

    He said that the conference was mainly aimed consistent elaboration and
    introduction of necessary principles and criteria in the all-Armenian
    educational system.

    "We do not strive to work out common standards for schools of all
    Armenian communities of the world, however the fact that we have a
    common goal, which we can embody in tasks and graphics is evident",
    Lazarian finds.

    He emphasized that during the conference participants will discuss
    main issues, which worry representatives of Armenian schools of
    Armenia and Diaspora.

    "The agenda of the event includes, particularly the issue of teaching
    Armenian Studies at school, problems of language policy in the system
    of secondary education, the necessity of creating a department of
    West-Armenian Language in the Yerevan State University and Armenian
    on-line school", he explained.

    In his turn head of the Diaspora relations department of RA Ministry of
    Science and Education Hrach Tadevosyan emphasized that 150 directors
    of schools, lycees and educational centers from 23 countries of the
    world, namely from Russia, Georgia, Karabakh, USA, Argentina, Canada
    and France take part in the event.

    The second All-Armenian Educational Conference is being held in
    Tsakhkadzor Armenian resort city from August 18 to 20.

    The first such conference was held in Armenia in 2004. Such event's
    are aimed at unifying the potential in the sphere of education in
    the scope of the Armenia-Diaspora cooperation, specifying dominant
    directions of the educational sphere, joint and systemized elaboration
    of programs on timely issues and search for solutions, as well as
    rendering practical assistance.

    The third Armenia-Diaspora Forum is scheduled for September 18-20,
    2006.
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