YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The 7th Pan-Armenian Youth Forum will be held in Tsakhkadzor on 10-15 and 70 young people from Armenia and 35 Diasporan Armenian Young people from Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Iran and France take part in it. Deputy Minister of the RA Ministry of Diaspora Stepan Petrosian took part in the opening ceremony. The latter congratulated on the occasion of beginning of the Forum on behalf of the Ministry. S. Petrosian attached importance to the Diasporan Armenian young people's participation and solution of the problems in the issue of their introduction in the processes of strenghtening of the Armenian identity. He told the participants of the Forum that the RA Ministry of Diaspora has been realizing the Come Home program since 2009 attaching importance to the Armenian-based education of Diasporan Armenian young people, their knowledge of the Armenian system of values and national roots, the solution of the problems of the preservation of the Armenian spirit. He also attached importance to the fact that the RA Ministry of Diaspora also realizes a number of other programs which are to improve the life and studying conditions of the Diasporan Armenian young people in their Homeland and to assist the repatriation aimed at preservation of the Armenian spirit and usage of the potential of the Diaspora. S. Petrosian wished the participants of the 7th Pan-Armenian Youth Forum a productive activity in all spheres of life and a close cooperation and unity around the high ideas of development of Armenia, Armenian Diaspora and Armenian State, the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and its conviction, the just settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh Issue.

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