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    ARMENIA HOSTS EVENTS ON PROTECTION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    June 12, 2012 - 13:11 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, June 12, Yerevan hosted a seminar on
    protection of ethnic minorities, with head of Armenian government's
    Ethnic Minorities and Religious Affairs Department delivering a report.

    Vardan Ascatryan noted that the Framework Convention for the Protection
    of National Minorities(FCNM) aimed to foster the maintenance of ethnic
    minorities' culture.

    The seminar pursued the goal to detect minorities' problems through
    discussions and offer possible solutions to them.

    Series of events have been held in Armenia since 2000, in the framework
    of which text books and newspapers were published.

    Ethnic minorities comprised 2.5% of total population in 2011, with
    Yazidis representing the largest number (about 40 thous.); while the
    number of Jews, Germans, Poles and Belarusians didn't exceed 1000.

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