THIRD PAN-ARMENIAN YOUTH FORUM OPENS IN TSAKHKADZOR
YEREVAN, JULY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The third Pan-Armenian Youth Forum
opened on July 22 in Tsakhkadzor with participation of nearly 90
Armenian youths from Armenia, Artsakh and 9 other countries. In his
greeting speech addressed to forum participants RA President Robert
Kocharian expressed a hope that the pan-Armenian nature of the forum,
as well as the youth energy are able to put forward and solve serious
problems. “We attach importance to working out of the principles of
pan-Armenian youth policy and express our readiness to render state
assistance to the programs aimed at realization of these principles,”
the address said. According to Lilit Asatrian, RA Deputy Minister of
Culture and Youth Affairs, the development of Homeland-Diaspora
relations is considered to be very important in the state youth policy
and such forums contribute to it. “Our goal as those carrying on youth
policy is to turn the youth from policy consumers into those working
out this policy,” L.Asatrian said. In her estimation, this process has
already started today and this forum can be its precondition. The
forum will close on July 27.