NEW AGREEMENT TO BE SIGNED CONCERNING RA AND NKR COOPERATION IN EDUCATION SPHERE

Noyan Tapan
Oct 24 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Serious reforms take place today
in the educational field of Armenia, and their consonant responnse
in Nagorno Karabakh, where the system change is also a primary task,
is also important. It was mentioned at the October 23 meeting of Levon
Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of Education and Science, and Karo Atayan,
the NKR Minister of Education, Culture and Youth Issues. According
to the information submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA Ministry of
Education and Science, programs of the two countries’ cooperation
in the education sphere during the coming years were discussed
at the meeting. The first program on the Armenia and Nagorno
Karabakh cooperation in the sphere of education was signed still
in 1999. Summing up steps taken within its framework, the sides
discussed new programs to be implemented in the spheres of both
secondary education and higher one. An agreement was reached between
the Ministers to meet in Nagorno Karabakh during the second ten days
of November to fix the discussion results by a new document and adopt
the clear schedule of implementation of the programs.