Opinion: Armenia can play important role in establishing international cultural dialogue

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16.04.2008, 17:33

Armenians living abroad and trying to preserve their national identity can play an important role in establishing international cultural dialogue, Levon Mkrtchyan, acting science and education minister, said on Tuesday.

YEREVAN, April 16. /ARKA/. Armenians living abroad and trying to preserve their national identity can play an important role in establishing international cultural dialogue, Levon Mkrtchyan, acting science and education minister, said on Tuesday.

“Armenia is now embarking on establishing intercultural dialogue with South Caucasus countries. This is quite new initiative. That’s why some specification and standards are needed”, he said at the ceremony of closing the conference on establishing dialogue in South Caucasus and Ukraine.

Mkrtchyan said that schools, universities and post-graduate education will become insufficient for constantly developing and globalizing world.

“Those countries able to reform education systems and open them to the entire world will take advantage from it in the future”, he said.

The conference was held in South Caucasus and Ukraine was held in Yerevan on April 14 and 15 as part of Intercultural and Inter-religious Dialogue launched in 2008 by Council of Europe and European Commission.

Yerevan Linguistic University after Valery Bryusov is responsible for this program implementation. M.V.-0--

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