PAN-ARMENIAN SECOND YOUTH CONGRESS TO LAUNCH TODAY

Azg/arm
21 July 05

The second pan-Armenian youth congress organized by the Pan-Armenian
International Youth Center will launch in Tsakhkadzor today and will
last till July 28.

Government’s decision of 2002 set the Center to contribute to
fostering relations between international youth organizations in
Armenia and Diaspora.

The Executive director of the Center, Armen Sinanian, gave
scarce information on the event. He said that 80 young people from
international youth organizations will participate in the congress.
Sinanian said that they chose the participants based on their
applications that considered the age (aged 18-35) and a number of other
parameters. Pan-Armenian International Youth Center has widened its
geography of this year including participants from Nagorno Karabakh
and 10 foreign countries (contrary to 17 countries last year). The
agenda of the congress includes visits to governmental organs,
business circles and to army regiments.

The Center, which gets annual subsidies of 50 million drams, will
receive 7 million for the congress.

By Gohar Gevorgian

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress