ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Aug 10 2007
ARF youth congress discusses problem of youth in Armenia, Diaspora
YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The participants in the 10th all-Armenian
congress of the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun) (ARF) discussed problems of young people in Armenia
and in the Diaspora.
The ARF representative, Advisor to the RA Minister of Education and
Science Nvard Minasyan reported that the goal of the discussion is to
draw the Government’s attention to the resolution of young people’s
problems.
`Young people must be afforded the opportunity to get involved in
social processes, state construction for them to show their
individuality,’ she said.
According to Manasyan, the congress participants are to discuss the
major problems facing Armenian young people, particularly problems of
education, healthcare, employment, with special importance to be
attached to the family’s role.
`The fundamental problem now is to ensure the succession of
generations, as an overwhelming majority of Armenia’s citizens are 35
years old and were brought up and educated in the Soviet time, which
is radically different from the present day,’ she said. Manasyan
pointed out that young people can contribute to the resolution of the
problems thereby ensuring public unity.
In his turn, the ARF member Sevak Gasparyan reported that the
discussions can facilitate the creation of `a healthy and
constructive atmosphere in the Diaspora’, which is beneficial for
Armenia. He pointed out that the ARF’s priority activity is to ensure
ties between the Homeland and the Diaspora and to use the latter’s
potential.
The 10th all-Armenian congress of the ARF youth wing was opened in
Yerevan on August 9, 2007. Among the participants are about 100 young
people aged 19-24 from 13 countries. The participants are discussing
various issues, particularly the prospects for Armenia’s economic
development, major problems of Armenian young people and the Armenian
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