ARMENIAN YOUTH COMMUNITIES OF DIASPORA STILL HAVE PROBLEM OF BEING ORGANIZED, ARTUR POGHOSIAN SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Jul 09 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Artur Poghosian, the RA Deputy Minister
of Culture, the Director of the All-Armenian Youth Foundation,
considers that young forces’ active participation is necessary for
ensuring permanence of any process. As he mentioned in his interview to
Noyan Tapan correspondent during the break of the All Armenian Youth
International Conference that started on July 9, the youth play an
especially important role in the issue of deepening and development of
Armenia-Diaspora and Diaspora-Diaspora contacts. The Deputy Minister
said that the state supports and finances different youth events
within the framework of the strategy of the state youth policy in
Armenia. However, only with the state assistance it is impossible
to develop contacts between the youth of Armenia and the Diaspora:
state-Diaspora "equal partnership" is needed for that.
A. Poghosian said that the conference, being properly organized,
gives him the hope that it will contribute to establishment of those
relations at the level of the youth. In his words, the "self-critical"
speeches of the conference participants make it clear that the youth of
any community of the Diaspora still has the problem of being organized.