Xinhua General News Service, China
April13, 2012 Friday 11:40 AM EST
Chinese Language Day celebrated inArmenia
YEREVAN April 13
Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU) and the United Nations
representative office jointly celebrated a Chinese Language Day here
on Friday.
The event was to introduce to theArmenianpeople the richness and
history of Chinese and build a stronger partnership between the two
nations, U.N. Resident Coordinator and UNDP Representative Dafina
Gercheva said in her welcome speech at the function.
Zhao Mingwen, charge d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy inArmenia,
thanked the U.N. representative office and YSLU for holding such an
activity and hoped moreArmenianstudents would learn Chinese and help
further promote ties between China andArmeniathrough language study.
YSLU Rector Suren Zolyan, and Naira Grigoryan, director of the
Confucius Educational and Cultural Center of YSLU, also attended the
celebration.
The event was co-organized by the U.N. Department of Public
Information and the Confucius Educational and Cultural Center of YSLU.
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