PAN-DIASPORAN EDUCATIONAL FORUM TO BE HELD IN ANTELIAS ON AUGUST 5-7

YEREVAN, August 4 (Noyan Tapan). The pan-Diasporan educational forum
will be held in Antelias on August 5-7 with the support of Catholicos
of the Great Cilician House Aram I. The forum will be dedicated to
problems of education in Armenian spirit. Hrach Tadevosian, Chief of
the Diaspora Department of the RA Ministry of Education and Science,
told NT’s correspondent that about 70 delegates will participate in
the forum from the different colonies of the Diaspora.

Levon Ananian, Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Armenian, is already
in Lebanon with the purpose of participation in the forum from
Armenia. According to Hrach Tadevosian, the issue of other
participants will be specified today.

According to Hrach Tadevosian, issues put before the gymnasias of the
Diaspora will be discussed during the forum, a number of issues
available in the colonies will be also discussed. “The problems of the
education of the Armenian children are exposed to danger, and the
number of Armenian students decreased in the colonies in general,
which worries everybody. I think this issue should be first of all put
to the agenda of the forum,” stressed H. Tadevosian. The Chief of the
Department, speaking about the issue of the closing of the Melgonian
Gymnasia, mentioned that though the decision on the closing of the
gymnasia has already been made, parents of the graduates and students
of the gymnasia carry out work in order that the educational
establishment having 78-year history will continue serving the
Armenian Community.