Arka News Agency, Armenia
Dec 1 2006
ARMENIA READY FOR COOPERATION WITH ICRC
YEREVAN, December 1. /ARKA/. Armenia is ready for cooperation with
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in implementing
educational programs, RA Minister of Education and Science Levon
Mkrtichyan stated at his meeting with Director of the ICRC office in
Armenia Yves Arnoldy and other ICRC representatives.
The Minister thanked the ICRC delegation for implementing an
educational program in the country’s comprehensive schools.
The ICRC is also implementing an educational program of disseminating
knowledge of international humanitarian law among schoolchildren.
Under the program textbooks were elaborated for 5th and 7th formers.
Manuals for teachers are also available. Optional classes were
organized.
A survey conducted by the ICRC this summer to determine the program’s
efficiency showed much better awareness of international humanitarian
law among schoolchildren in Armenia. P.T. -0–