PAN-DIASPORA CONFERENCE ON ARMENIAN EDUCATION OPENED IN ANTELIAS

ANTELIAS, August 6 (Noyan Tapan). The official opening of the
Pan-Diaspora Conference on Armenian Education was held at the main
hall of the Theological Seminary, in Bikfaya, Lebanon on August 5
morning. The Pan-Diaspora Conference was initiated by His Holiness
Aram I, Catholicos of the Great Cilician House, and organized by the
Catholicosate of the Great Cilician House. The committee consisting of
the following people appointed by the Catholicos of the Great Cilician
House carried out the organization work: Pepo Simonian, Karo
Hovhannisian and Zhirair Danielian. Around one hundred intellectuals
and experts almost from all communities in Diaspora addressed this
timely issue in different perspectives and contexts. The Armenian
department of the “Galust Gyulbenkian” Office rendered material and
moral support to the conference. The RA Minister of Education, the
President of the Cultural and Educational Commission of the Parliament
and President of the Armenian Writers’ Union Levion Ananian will
attend this conference. 75 people from the Armenian communities of
Australia, the United States, Canada, South America and other
countries will be also present at the conference. The work of the
conference will complete on August 7. According to the press divan of
the Great Cilician House, because of the unique importance of the
Conference and the special attention that the Armenian Catholicosate
of Cilicia gives to the Armenian Education, His Holiness Aram I will
address the Conference and take part in its deliberations and actions.