ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT’S ACTION PLAN FOR 2008-2012 ON STATE YOUTH POLICY DEVELOPED
Noyan Tapan
Sep 3, 2007
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The Youth Policy Department of the
RA Ministry of Sport and Youth Issues has developed and submitted
to the government the RA government’s action plan for 2008-2012 on
state youth policy, as well as the RA state budget’s 2008 expenditure
program of state youth policy.
The expenditure program of state youth policy gives priority to
promotion of young people’s active participation in social life,
increasing their employment, and assisting with their spiritual,
cultural and patriotic education. Importance is also attached to
development of cooperation with youth organizations and provision of
state assistance to their activities, examination of young people’s
social and economic problems and taking measures aimed at their
solution.
According to a press release of the Center for Organization of Youth
Events of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Issues, one of the priority
directions of the program is creation of regional and community
youth centers.
The priorities also include ensuring the legal field of youth issues
by making laws and other legal acts regulating this field.