TEACHERS’ TRAINING CENTER OPENS IN GAVAR
Noyan Tapan
May 11 2006
GAVAR, MAY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The teachers’ training center opened
in Gavar.
It will give possibility to teachers of the marz of Gegharkunik not
having passed training courses for more than ten years to improve their
pedagogical skills and deepen professional knowledge. Specialists of
the center will regularly pass training in Yerevan then to pass the
got knowlegde to teachers of secondary schools of the marz, during
the seminars organized in the center. The Education, Culture, Sports
and Youth Issues Department of the Gegharkunik Governor’s Office will
assist the center. The Center’s coordinators are appointed in the
cities of Sevan, Martuni, Vardenis and Chambarak to get acquainted
to porblems existing in schools and define works in the direction of
solving them.

ARMENIANS SEEK ANSWERS AFTER PLANE DISASTER
By Gayane Mkrtchian in Yerevan
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, UK
May 11 2006
Air traffic controllers under the spotlight after Armenian Black Sea
air tragedy.
Relatives of the 113 passengers and crew who died in last week’s
Armenian air crash are seeking answers to what lay behind the tragedy.
As efforts are continuing to locate the black box of the A-320 aircraft
in the Black Sea, many different versions of what caused the disaster
are already circulating in Armenia.
The release of a transcript of conversations between the pilots and
Georgian traffic control has raised the question of whether Russian
controllers mistakenly advised the plane to try to make a landing in
Adler airport outside the Black Sea port of Sochi.
The Armavia aircraft crashed at around 02.15 local time on May 3. All
of those on board, including six children, died. So far 53 bodies have
been recovered and 47 identified. Armenia held two days of mourning
last week for the dead.
In the search for answers in Armenia, much attention has centred
on the issue of what advice the pilots were given by Georgian and
Russian traffic controllers.
The air-traffic control department of Georgia, in whose airspace the
plane spent most of its journey, has released the transcript of part
of the conversation between its staff and the pilots of the A-320.
It suggests that after the captain of the Armenian plane, Grisha
Grigorian, concerned about bad weather, had turned round and said
he was returning to Yerevan, Russian controllers had advised him to
attempt to land at Adler airport, but to circle it before making a
final approach.
The Armenian and Georgian controllers met on May 4 to discuss what
the Georgians had heard, but the Russians did not take part in the
meeting. Some say the Russian no-show was because of the political
strains between Moscow and Tbilisi.
Prior to the release of the tape, the Russians had denied that they
had advised the plane to turn around and fly on to Sochi.
In the transcript, Georgian controllers and the pilot discuss whether
the plane has enough fuel to return to Yerevan after being told that
there was poor weather in Sochi.
Tea Gadabadze, press secretary of Georgian air-traffic control, told
IWPR by telephone that all the transcripts have been handed over to
the Armenian side. She said that the Georgians had only made public
a small part of the tape “so as not to cause pain”.
Dmitry Adbashian, chairman of Armenia’s National Aviation Society,
said, “[In the Georgian transcripts] you cannot hear the conversation
between our pilots and the Russian controllers. I cannot exclude
the possibility that the Sochi controllers made mistakes but I can’t
confirm it as I have no facts.”
Artyom Movsesian, former head of civil aviation in Armenia, said he
had information that the pilot made the decision to turn back because
of bad weather but was persuaded by the Adler controllers that the
weather was good enough to continue.
“We have a whole series of questions,” said Mikael Bagdasarov, head
of Armavia airlines. “The plane was making a normal landing. The
question arises why was he sent to make a second circuit?”
On May 11 the Intergovernmental Aviation Commission of former Soviet
states, which is investigating the accident, issued a press release
saying that Adler air traffic control had advised the captain of the
plane to abort his landing and make a right turning shortly before
he was due to touch down.
Interviewed by IWPR, Oleg Yermolov, deputy chairman of the committee
rejected allegations that the controllers had acted irresponsibly.
He also said that he could “officially” deny reports in the Armenian
newspaper Aravot that the Russian controllers were rude and swore at
the pilots of the doomed aircraft.
Gayane Davtian, of the Armenian civil aviation authority, said that
a nine-person team had been sent to Sochi and was deciphering the
conversation between the control tower and the pilot.
The Armenian prosecutor’s office is also seeking to question the
Adler airport controller.
Enquiries about the mechanical state of the aircraft and the experience
of the pilot have uncovered little that is suspicious.
Colleagues of the pilot say that he was familiar with emergency
situations and an experienced flyer. Questions have been asked about
whether the A-320 was serviced in Armenia or Belgium – but, so far,
there’s been no suggestion that it was in a dangerous condition.
Movesian said the plane, which was 11 years old, had last undergone
checks in April and that it had been cleared for flight by the ground
staff at Zvarnots airport in Yerevan.
In addition, there are no suggestions that the aircraft ran out
of fuel.
The plane’s black boxes, which are at a depth of more than 400 metres,
could help solve the crash mystery. Adbashian said that the flight
recorders were strong enough to last for a month underwater, but he
feared they would not be found.
On May 8, French experts arrived on the scene with equipment which they
hope will be able to locate and lift the much-anticipated black boxes.
Gayane Mkrtchian is a reporter with in Yerevan. Seda
Muradyan, IWPR Armenia country director, also contributed to this
report.

BLACK BOXES LOCATED
Lragir.am
11 May 06
The experts searching for the Armenian A320, which crashed on May 3,
have located the black boxes of the plane, which is lying at the bottom
of the sea, at a depth of 600 meters. The news was reported by one
of the heads of the search team to Ria Novosti. The measurement of
the French apparatus was confirmed by the Russian apparatus Kalmar
designed for underwater work, said the head of the search team. On
May 12 Kalmar will be lowered to the bottom of the sea to confirm
the location of the black boxes.
Experts say the French are highly interested in finding the black
boxes. They hope that the records of the black boxes will refute the
suggestions that the equipment of the aircraft went out of order. At
the same time, the rescuers have only 20 days to take the black boxes
out of water, for these black boxes transmit radio signals within 30
days after a crash. Then the charge runs low. Hence, the search team
has only 22 days. “Our time is limited,” said Alexander Davidenko,
the head of the search team, in an interview with Interfax. The
experts need to decide how to lift the black boxes.
Robot-manipulators must be used, which presently are not available
because the Russian ships, equipped to locate and lift objects from
6000 meters, cannot be used for the search. “These ships are in
different parts of the ocean and cannot reach here in such a short
period of time,” said Davidenko to Interfax. In the meantime, the
airport of Adler refuted the information about the disappearance of
the dispatcher. The airport reported that the dispatcher is in service
and will be working on May 12. The officers of the Interstate Aviation
Committee have already interrogated the dispatcher. The head of the
Department of Investigation of Air Accidents Aleksey Morozov stated
May 11 that immediately before the crash the dispatcher instructed the
crew of A320 to stop landing and gain height, turning to the right. The
aircraft began gaining height, however, it soon began to go down and
plunged into the sea. The Interstate Aviation Committee reported that
the last communication between the aircraft and the dispatcher was
recorded at 2.12.34 Moscow time. At 2.13.2 the aircraft disappeared
from the screen of the radar.

ARMENIA ADOPTS 12-YEAR SECONDARY EDUCATION
Lragir.am
11 May 06
Since September 2006 Armenian schools will adopt 12-year secondary
education. The transition will be finally over in 2009, and in 2009
a three-grade secondary education will be declared. On May 11 the
government of Armenia approved provisions in the law on education on
transition to a 12-year school education. Under these provisions,
children will go to school at the age of six instead of the former
6.5. But in September 2006 both 6 and 6.5-year-old children will be
admitted. There will be two first grades, says Deputy Minister of
Education Norayr Ghukasyan. The six-year-old children will study for
12 years and the 6.5 year-old-children will study for 11 years. Since
2007 children will go to school at the age of 6. This transition
implies change of textbooks and syllabuses. The teaching staffs will
be retrained. Elementary school will include 1-4 grades instead of
the former 1-3, 5-9 grades will be considered middle school, 10-12
grades will be senior school.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

DEFENSE MINISTRY OF GEORGIA DEPLOYED SQUAD OF 50 IN JAVAKHETI
Lragir.am
11 May 06
Akhalkalaki, 11 May, A-Info. The Ministry of Defense of Georgia has
stationed a squad of 50 soldiers in Javakheti for a secure withdrawal
of armament from the Russian military base in Akhalkalaki. The Georgian
soldiers are presently stationed in the building of the Police of
Ninotsminda. The withdrawal of weapons and equipment will start on
May 15.

TURKEY STANDS AGAINST ALLIES FOR SAYING TURKS COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST ARMENIANS
PRAVDA, Russia
May 11 2006
The moves come in a week of tense diplomacy for the Turks, who briefly
recalled ambassadors to both France and Canada in protest against
recent statements in those countries on the killings of Armenians. The
ambassadors returned Thursday after four days in Ankara.
The diplomatic maneuvering shows how sensitive Turks are to the
issue. In recognizing the killings as genocide, other countries are
putting the Ottoman Turks in the same category as Nazi Germans, a
move intensely resisted in Turkey and not likely to make the Turks
any more popular in the European Union they hope to join.
Turkey vehemently denies that a genocide against Armenians took
place, and has made it government policy to fight such assertions with
diplomatic and economic sanctions if necessary. But it is unclear how
far Turks are willing to go to fight recognition abroad, especially
if it could mean harming the EU bid on which the government has staked
its reputation.
“Sometimes you talk, then you have to behave according to the way
you talk, and you get to a place you never wanted to go in the first
place,” said Ilter Turan, a political scientist at Istanbul Bilgi
University, of whether Turkey would carry through on its threats.
Combating recognition of genocide has long been a give and take battle
for Turkey, which is often outmuscled abroad by local constituencies
of Armenians, and then forced to rely on high-level diplomatic and
economic threats to keep them from achieving their aims.
The tactic Turkey is using now seems to be to ignore Canada – both
politically and economically – and engage France using a mix of
incentives and threats.
The Foreign Ministry released a statement saying Canada had learned
nothing from “the stagnation of relations between the two countries”
after the Canadian parliament voted to recognize the killings of
Armenians as genocide, which Canada’s prime minister recently said
he stood by.
On the other hand, Turkey sent a parliamentary delegation to Paris
this week, the Turkish chambers of commerce have sent letters to their
counterparts pleading for help and warning of a boycott, and Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday held a private meeting in
Ankara with representatives of large French firms with investments in
Turkey, where he warned of serious harm to relations if the genocide
measure was allowed to pass.

ORINATS YERKIR SECEDED FROM COALITION
Lragir.am
11 May 06
In an extraordinary meeting the political board of the Orinats Yerkir
Party decided on seceding from the coalition late in the evening
of May 11. At 12 o’clock on May 12 Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan, the
leader of the Orinats Yerkir Party, will give a news conference at
the National Assembly.

MISMATCH OF THE CENTURY
by Justin Burke
Transitions Online, Czech Republic
May 11 2006
As the United States enters a potential Cold War II with Russia,
it has one hand tied behind its back. From EurasiaNet.
It was just about five years ago when President George W. Bush said
he looked into the soul of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin,
and pronounced that their meeting was “the beginning of a very
constructive relationship.” Now, amid sharp geopolitical maneuvering
in the Caucasus and Central Asia, the United States and Russia seem
to be girding for Cold War II. Unlike the epic conflict during the
last half of the 20th century, Washington is poorly positioned to
defeat Russia in a new superpower standoff.
Talk of a revived Cold War followed U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s
blistering attack on Russia in a 4 May speech in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Cheney criticized the Kremlin for carrying out a drastic rollback
of political rights, as well as using its energy infrastructure as
“tools of intimidation or blackmail.”
The bulk of Cheney’s speech in Vilnius focused on the Bush
administration’s global democratization mission. The vice president
used terms that, ironically, seemed to parallel the Marxist belief
in determinism. “We have every reason for confidence in the future
of democracy because the evidence is on our side and because we are
upholding great and enduring values,” Cheney said. He lent a messianic
tone to his comments by adding, “We are created in the image and
likeness of God, and he planted in our hearts a yearning to be free.”
Referring specifically to the former Soviet Union, Cheney indicated
that the United States wants to “free this region from all remaining
lines of division, from violations of human rights, from frozen
conflicts,” including the stalemated Caucasus wars in Nagorno-Karabakh,
Abkhazia, and South Ossetia.”
The vice president attempted to hedge his harsh words about the
Kremlin’s behavior, saying “None of us believe that Russia is fated
to be an enemy.” In Moscow, though, officials and media analysts were
having none of it. The Kremlin termed Cheney’s speech “completely
incomprehensible,” while Russian media outlets fulminated that
Washington was trying to stoke a new Cold War. The Kommersant daily
published a commentary that compared Cheney’s comments to Winston
Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946. “The Cold War has
restarted, only now the front lines have shifted,” Kommersant said.
To a great extent, Cheney’s words were merely a public admission of
a trend that has been readily evident for at least two and a half
years. The sharp decline in relations can be traced to the point when
U.S. forces began struggling to contain the insurgency in Iraq. It
has long been clear to anyone who truly follows developments in the
Caucasus and Central Asia that the two countries were antagonists,
not allies. Both sides maintained the increasingly apparent fiction
that they were partners when, in fact, they were competitors for
political and economic influence in those two regions.
Cheney’s comments on Russia are largely accurate: The Putin
administration has indeed restricted individual liberties, and the
Kremlin has certainly used state-controlled energy companies to
increase its geopolitical leverage, especially in Central Asia.
But in picking a fight with Russia, the Bush administration seems to be
making dangerous assumptions about the United States’ current strengths
and weaknesses, while ignoring the old Wall Street caveat that says
“past performance does not ensure future results.” It’s already clear
that a new-style Cold War – if it unfolds, as now seems likely – will
be more economic than political and ideological in nature. And instead
of the struggle focusing on Western and Central Europe, the epicenters
of the new conflict stand to be the Caucasus and Central Asia. Given
these factors, the United States is at a severe disadvantage as it
moves toward the next stage of geopolitical competition with Russia.
For one, Russia has a decided geographic advantage, as its territory
borders the Caucasus and Central Asia. More importantly, as the United
States has become bogged down in Iraq, Russian energy companies have
made deep inroads into the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Moscow even wields extensive influence over the energy infrastructure
of Georgia, the closest U.S. ally in the two regions. In just the
last few months, Moscow also has significantly reinforced its grip on
energy export routes, the key to victory in the geopolitical struggle.
The United States has few mechanisms at its disposal to break the
Russian stranglehold. Any chance of U.S. success seems to be tied to
the fate of two pipelines running through Azerbaijan and Georgia to
Turkey; the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil route that opened in 2005
and the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum natural gas link that is projected to
open later this year. It appears that for both pipelines to accomplish
their strategic aims, Kazakhstan must opt to ship a large amount of
its abundant natural resources via those two routes.
After making his speech in Vilnius, Cheney flew to Kazakhstan to
lobby President Nursultan Nazarbayev on making a commitment to the
U.S.-backed pipelines. At the same time Cheney was in Astana, Kazakh
Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov was on a working visit to Azerbaijan,
where he announced that the Kazakh government was interested in
exporting oil via BTC and exploring the feasibility of also sending
natural gas to Western markets via the Baku-Erzurum route. On the
surface, such statements seem encouraging. But deep down they don’t
have much value. Kazakh officials, including Nazarbayev, have made
similar statements in the past. Akhmetov may have gone further than
any Kazakh official by saying that the country could sign a BTC export
agreement as soon as next month. Still, there is no certainty that
an agreement will in fact be signed in June.
Whether or not that happens, the crucial issue is how much energy
Kazakhstan is willing to export via Azerbaijan. And on this Astana
remains mum. In April, Kazakhstan committed to significantly increasing
its oil exports via Russia. It could well turn out that Kazakhstan
could decide to send only a token amount of its oil and gas via
Azerbaijan – just enough to remain in the Bush administration’s favor,
without tilting the U.S.-Russian energy contest in Washington’s favor.
LOOKING SOUTH
Another U.S. response to Russia’s growing influence in Central Asia
is to try and reorient the region toward South Asia. This intention
was reflected in a recent U.S. State Department reorganization that
created the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. Central Asian
policy had formerly been handled by the State Department’s Europe
and Eurasia bureau. Apparently connected with the State Department
reorganization, U.S. officials in late April advanced a plan to
develop a new electricity grid linking Central and South Asia. The
plan counts on electricity generated in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to
serve as the engine for the development of stronger inter-regional
ties. This vision stands a good chance of short-circuiting, however, as
it does not seem to take into account that Russian companies control a
significant part of Tajikistan’s electricity-generating infrastructure.
In addition, the United States is now vulnerable on an issue that
used to be its strength: ideology. During the original Cold War, the
appeal of democracy enabled the United States to occupy the moral
high ground. In recent years, U.S. credibility on democratization
and human rights issues has been severely damaged by scandals, in
particular the Abu Ghraib prison torture incident in Iraq.
Authoritarian-minded leaders in the Caucasus and Central Asia,
even those on friendly terms with the United States, are now less
inclined than ever to listen to U.S. rhetoric on the need to respect
human rights. For example, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev during
his recent visit to Washington brushed aside criticism over his
administration’s human rights record by invoking Abu Ghraib. “Things
happen everywhere. Does Abu Ghraib mean that the U.S. government is
not democratic?” Aliyev said during a meeting with nongovernmental
organization representatives.
Many policy-makers in the Caucasus and Central Asia also view U.S.
statements concerning democratization with cynicism, believing that
the Bush administration harbors double standards. Cheney during his
recent trip helped stoke such cynicism: Immediately after his Vilnius
speech, he traveled to Kazakhstan, where democratization concerns took
a back seat to energy issues. Nazarbayev’s administration has faced
considerable international criticism in recent years for manipulating
elections and for restricting political freedoms, yet Cheney glossed
over Kazakhstan’s shortcomings. During a short news conference
on 6 May, according to a White House transcript, Cheney expressed
“admiration for all that’s been accomplished here in Kazakhstan in the
last 15 years, both in the economic and political realm.” Earlier,
Cheney held a high-profile meeting with several representatives of
Kazakhstan’s political opposition. But he remained silent when Kazakh
authorities prevented one of the country’s highest-profile opposition
figures, Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, from attending that meeting.
Since March 2005, when Kyrgyzstan experienced its Tulip revolution,
democratization has come to be associated with upheaval by many in
Central Asia. Indeed, Kyrgyzstan has seen a dramatic rise in crime
and corruption since the ouster of former president Askar Akayev.
Russia has been able to capitalize on this by casting itself as a
purveyor of political stability, even if such stability comes at the
cost of political and civil liberties.
During that 6 May news conference, Nazarbayev appeared to tell the
United States, in diplomatic terms, that Kazakhstan is going to go
its own political way, regardless of what the United States thinks.
“We have to get used [to the fact] that every independent state,
while solving its problems, has a certain policy, and everybody should
learn to respect this policy,” Khabar television quoted the Kazakh
president as saying.
Justin Burke is editor of EurasiaNet.

NEVER MAKE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WAITERS
Borders Today, UK
May 11 2006
I was humbled this week by an exchange with a young waiter.
After some pleasantries about nothing in particular, I confessed I
couldn’t place his accent at all. He explained he was from Yerevan
in Armenia, writes Peter Clarke.
My ignorance of Armenia, I admit it, is almost total. I knew it was a
former Soviet Republic and somewhere in the Caucasus. I knew they had
been the subject of Turkish genocide and they have their own Orthodox
Church. That is about it.
My new friend disarmed me with his life story. He holds a PhD in
engineering but has to earn his way as a migrant waiter as his nation’s
economy has shrivelled and stalled. I could see his intelligence behind
his darting eyes and his merriment. He remarked Scots have little
appreciation of how lucky we are. Our complaints about our lives are
petty footnotes compared to the experiences of millions abroad.
He observed that most migrants or immigrants, once they have picked
up our language, love Scotland, or Britain, more than the natives.
This is my feeling too.
I was born in Venice, Italy, with family roots in the badlands of
Belarus. Yet I think I know more and have a deeper affection for
Scotland than most who have never known anything else.
My new friend then disarmed me totally by quoting both Scott’s,
‘The Young Lochinvar’ and Burns ‘My Heart is in the Highlands’,
saying Scottish authors are highly regarded in the mountains of
Armenia. How many Borderers could quote these poems without flaw? I
felt thoroughly diminished.
The accession of the former Warsaw Pact nations to the European
Union three years ago, with Bulgaria, Romania and possibly the former
Yugoslav nations joining the EU next year, soon all the more humble
jobs will be filled by these brave migrating people. As far as I
can learn most want to return home as soon as they have accumulated
some funds.
This seems to me a genuinely new and largely unmapped phenomenon. In
past centuries we operated a version of farming termed transhumance
– living on upland shielings with our stock. Now we have a variety
of this transhumance by way of young people travelling thousands of
miles, grateful for jobs we are reluctant to take. I am resolved to
try to be more thoughtful when I encounter them.
We are told the Union Flag will be 300 years old in 2007.
The Act of Union that abolished the English and Scottish parliaments
to create one of Great Britain, never authorised the overlay of
the St George’s Cross on the St Andrew’s Cross. It just came to be
through usage.
I like the notion that it evolved rather than being designed by a
committee. St Patrick’s diagonal red did not get incorporated until
Ireland joined the Parliamentary Union in 1801.
Recent research has confirmed the curious fact all the earliest
representations of the Scottish emblem are shades of red, from scarlet
through to pink. The blue, a sort of washed-out imperial purple,
was a later accretion. I have seen it explained that red is the most
readily available dye and that blue was just not possible in a form
that could endure the weather.
I have also seen it asserted that the saltire was pink as the first
five Scottish Stewart monarchs were gay. I could believe anything of
that dynasty, including the notion the last one, Bonnie Prince Charlie,
was too. James VI and I was certainly not.
I had the good fortune, if that isn’t too incongruent a phrase,
to attend a beautiful service to mark the end of a life in my valley.
Ettrick Kirk is a perfect setting for a funeral. As it happened it was
a fine spring day but the location works well on a bleak wet winter
day too. Lonely kirks engulfed in ancient trees are difficult to beat.
The life of Mrs Janet Scott of Cacrabank was remembered by several
generations of relatives and her neighbours. She died rich in affection
and honour and in her 93rd year without much discomfort.
Samuel Sirocky, the minister, surely the first Czech divine in our
glen, chose his words with felicity. At many funerals we go through
the courtesies of giving thanks for a life but on this occasion with
was no hint of the sentiments being contrived.
It is not easy to make the leap of imagination back to the Borders
she knew in her earliest years, in Peebles. There were barely any
cars. Transport was by steam train or by cart. Work consisted of
two options – the mills or the hills. The Liberals were running the
country. Electricity and phones had been invented but not reached
our rural fastnesses.
She, and her friends, could have had no conception of the terrible
wars and cruelties of the 20th century or of the technical advances.
Janet Scott once perplexed me by boasting her remote and handsome
home was so ‘central’. Central?! “Oh yes,” she said, “20 miles to
Innerleithan and 20 miles to Hawick and 20 miles to Selkirk”. I later
realised that far back, you walked these distances without complaint.
Mrs Scott’s was a lovely life, in a lovely family in a lovely glen.

OSCE OFFICE IN YEREVAN ORGANIZES TRAINING COURSE AIMED AT INTEGRATING FUTURE POLICE OFFICERS INTO SOCIETY
Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)

May 11 2006
/noticias.info/ YEREVAN, 11 May 2006 – A two-day training course
entitled “Future Professionals for Consolidated Democracy” for
entry-level students will start tomorrow in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia.
The class is aimed at increasing the degree of integration of future
police officers into society. Half of the 40 students come from the
Police Academy, while the other 20 represent Yerevan State University,
the State Pedagogical University and the State Economic University. The
course, which is organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in close
co-operation with the Police Academy, will foster debate on various
current issues related to social development, democracy and rule of
law. It will also help students build inter-personal and communications
skills.
“This course is an effort to break the prevailing stereotype of
police officers and to facilitate a dialogue on democratic processes
in Armenia among future professionals,” said Blanka Hancilova,
Democratization Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
Hrachya Avetisyan, a first-year student at the Economic University
said he hoped to exchange ideas with other professionals-to-be during
the training.
“I want to live in a democratic country where mutual respect and
co-operation prevail and where human rights are not violated,”
he said. “I believe that young people can make a change if we work
together.”
The OSCE Office plans to continue offering similar training courses
to students.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress