AZG Armenian Daily #109, 15/06/2005

Cooperation

‘WE ARE NEIGHBORS THAT HAVE MANY THINGS IN COMMON’

Education Minister of Iran Visits Armenia

Iranian delegation head by education minister Morteza Haji arrived
in Yerevan on June 13 on a three-day visit. According to the visit
schedule the Iranian delegation will visit schools, universities and
will sign a memorandum on the last day of the stay. The memorandum
will probably specify the frames of cooperation in the sphere of
education, issues of representing the history of both states in history
text-books, retraining of teachers, organization of short-time classes
of Persian and a number of other issues.

Receiving the delegation, Armenian education minister Sergo Yeritsian
emphasized the importance of the meeting. The minister said that the
fact of having Iranian delegation with us on these days (when Iran
is getting ready for presidential elections) evidences that Iran
attaches great importance to relations with Armenia. Mr. Yeritsian
also expressed hope that the memorandum will help outline the future
steps of cooperation.

Iranian minister Morteza Haji assured that whoever elected Iranian
president, he will back this agreement. He believes that the talks
will be a success as we are neighbors that have many things in
common. Besides, “bilateral political and economic relations are in
the heyday and the educational and scientific relations are in the
stage of developing and hopefully they will progress”, Mr. Haji said.

By Gohar Gevorgian