ONE AND A HALF PERCENT OF ARMENIAN YOUTH ARE ACTIVE

Panorama.am
20:46 18/09/2007

"In Armenia, around 400 youth organizations are registered, of
which only 10 percent are active," stated Armenian National Congress
youth organization president, Atom Mkhitaryan, while meeting with
journalists. He is convinced that there aren’t even ten active youth
in each of the organizations, and that those who are active often
end up as "part of the ruling authorities."

In Mkhitaryan’s opinion, an issue exists concerning the unifying of
today’s youth, mainly because of the passive nature of that segment of
society. According to his figures, there are some 800 thousand youth
in Armenia today, of which one and a half percent are rated as active.

We point out that during the course of the last year 11 other
organizations were included in the activities of the youth
organization. "Today we have eight applications for membership, which
we need to look over," the group’s vice-president, Mariam Martirosyan,
pointed out. She is convinced that branches of her youth organization
will open in Armenia’s eight provinces in the near future.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress