SHUSHI (NKR) MAY BECOME SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CENTER OF ALL-ARMENIAN SIGNIFICANCE

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 19 2006

YEREVAN, September 19. /ARKA/. President of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic Arkady Ghukasyan told journalists in Yerevan on Monday
that Shushi city (NKR) might become a scientific and educational,
historical and cultural center of all-Armenian significance.

He said that the program on rehabilitation of Shushi was one of
the wide-ranging directions of rehabilitation and development of
Nagorno-Karabakh.

"It’s also a serious political step of NKR in strengthening of peace",
he said.

In this connection Ghukasyan emphasized that one of the most
perspective directions of cooperation of Karabakh and Diaspora is the
intellectual sphere, and particularly search for ways of cooperation
with leading Armenian businessmen of world scientific centers.

"The international experience and the best scientific and educational
traditions of Armenia may become a basis for creation of a system of
training of high-qualified specialists in Karabakh", Ghukasyan said.

On September 18-23, the third Armenia-Diaspora forum is being
held in Yerevan. Presidents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Robert
Kocharyan and Arkady Ghukasyan, Catholicos of all-Armenians Garegin
II and Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I, as well as
representatives of the scientific and educational spheres, Diaspora
and national minorities.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress