US Government Funded Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program Co

U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDED EDMUND S. MUSKIE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM COMMEMORATES 16 YEARS IN ARMENIA

US State News
June 23, 2009 Tuesday 6:00 PM EST

YEREVAN, Armenia, April 30 — The U.S. Embassy issued the following
press release:

On April 30, 2009, the U.S. Embassy in Armenia represented
by Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch, the Government of Armenia
represented by a number of Armenia’s ministers, IREX Armenia, and
Muskie alumni commemorated the 16-year anniversary of the Edmund
S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship program in the Marriott Hotel "Tigran
Mets" ballroom. Remarks were delivered by Ambassador Yovanovitch,
Minister of Economy Nerses Yeritsyan, and the director of IREX Armenia
Arina Zohrabian.

Established by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to encourage economic
and democratic growth in Eurasia, the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate
Fellowship Program is a program of the Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, and administered
by IREX. The program provides opportunities for graduate students and
professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and
Uzbekistan for one-year non-degree, one-year degree or two-year
degree study in the United States. Eligible fields of study for the
Muskie Program include business administration, economics, education,
environmental management, international affairs, journalism and
mass communication, law, library and information science, public
administration, public health, and public policy. To date, more than
360 Armenians have been awarded Muskie fellowships under the U.S. State
Department-funded program.

More than 60 alumni joined the reception to learn about various career
opportunities available to them within Armenia’s ministries and to
network with Armenia’s state officials. Fifteen newly selected Muskie
finalists who will embark for their U.S. studies in August 2009 were
also in attendance.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS