VARDAN OSKANIAN STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF PROGRAMS BEING IMPLEMENTED IN ARMENIA
BY EURASIA FOUNDATION
YEREVAN, October 11 (Noyan Tapan). The ten-year graant program being
implemented in Armenia by the Euurasia foundation addresses almost
all the spheres of civil life, President of the foundation Charles
Maynes and members of the board of trustees told at their October
11 meeting with RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian. Many of the
initiatves the organization has taken, the meeting participants
said, were unprecedented in the history of Armenia. Here belong the
university-level business management program, the first large-scale
program for municipal reforms, the first program for crediting
small enterprizes, the first campaign of national dialogue, and
the independent publishing system aimed at encouraging the freedom
of press. Minister Oskanian hailed the foundation’s activities in
Armenia stressing the importance of such programs for a country at
the transition stage. The RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information
Department reported to NT, the minister then outlined the general
regional state dwelling upon the recent developments of the Karabakh
conflict settlement and Armenian-Turkish relations. The Eurasia
foundation has been acting in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzia, Moldova, Russia, and Tajikistan. The headqaurters
is situated in Washington. The foundation has been acting in Armenia
since 1995.