FIRST STAGE OF WORKS OF WORKING OUT NATIONAL YOUTH REPORT OF ARMENIA FINISHES

Noyan Tapan
Apr 05 2006

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The first stage of works of working out
the National Youth Report of Armenia by the RA Ministry of Culture and
Youth Issues finished. The report is a complex study that presents
the existing state of the youth of Armenia, and will in future be a
basis for working out and implementing a state long-term strategy. As
Arsen Soghomonian, the Chief of the Youth Policy Department of the
Ministry’s staff informed at the April 4 press-conference, public
discussions of the preliminary stage of working out the report will
start this month. Besides, the preliminary variant of the report
will be presented in April to the Department of Youth Issues of the
Council of Europe, and CE experts’ visit to Armenia is scheduled for
summer. During this visit they will present their proposal concerning
the preliminary variant.

Arsen Soghomonian mentioned that Armenia is the first among the CIS
countries that prepares the National Youth Report. Works of preparing
the report started in June, 2005, for what the UN Development Program
allocated 15 thousand dollars. An experimental group was created for
works of working out the report on the initiative of the Ministry,
and the “Sotsium” sociological center held sociological surveys
among 1000 people surveyed. 176 issues presented in 8 blocks involved
the most important problems relating to youth at present, including
the issues of education, family, spiritual-cultural ones, those of
employement, sports.