RA DEPUTY MINISTER OF DIASPORA EXPRESSES WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT BOURG-LES-VALENCE ARMENIAN SCHOOL IN GIVING NECESSARY TEXTBOOKS
Noyan Tapan
July 7, 2009
YEREVAN, JULY 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Deputy Minister of
Diaspora Stepan Petrosian received Deputy Chairman of the French Senate
France-Armenia parliamentary friendship group, Bourg-les-Valence city’s
Mayor Bernard Piras on July 6. Elder of Bourg-les-Valence Arshaluys
Nadar and head of the European Armenian Communities’ Department of
the RA Ministry of Diaspora Hrach Aslanian were present at the meeting.
According to the RA Ministry of Diaspora, Deputy Minister Stepan
Petrosian acquainted the guests with the programs of the Ministry
and underlined the great contribution which the France-Armenia
parliamentary friendship group made in strenghtening of two countries’
relations.
Senator Piras, in his turn, told about the cooperation between the city
of Bourg-les-Valence and Armenian Talin city, as a result of which
the French side presented the city 5 buses for students and pupils,
writing materials to the four schools with a French bias and at the
expense of the sister cities’ committee the problem of paying the
salaries of Talin’s teachers of French was solved.
Senator Piras also told about the work carried out to adopt the law
on Armenian Genocide Denial by the Senate.
Deputy Minister Stepan Petrosian, welcoming the guest’s pro-Armenian
activity, expressed willingness to support Bourg-les-Valence
Armenian school in giving the necessary textbooks, as well as in
widely including the local Armenian community in the RA Ministry of
Diaspora’s programs.