Alina Hovhannisyan. Syrian youth is interested in higher education in Armenia in the following areas: IT, medicine, linguistics and intercultural communication. This was stated by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Syrian Arab Republic to Armenia Mohammed Haj Ibrahim during a meeting with the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia Araik Harutyunyan.

According to the press service of the department, the Ambassador stressed that Armenia is attractive from the point of view of training for Syrian students, in view of the fact that favorable and safe conditions for education have been created in the country.

In turn, Harutyunyan noted that the expansion of bilateral cooperation in the educational sphere is the issue on the agenda of the ministry, since hundreds of Syrian students receive education in Armenia.

According to the source, the sides discussed the draft program of interdepartmental cooperation for 2018- 2021 in the sphere of higher education and a number of other working issues.