YEREVAN, JULY 14, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian received Diasporan ARFD figures - participants of the All Armenian Conference on Armenian-Turkish relations and Nagorno Karabakh problem held in Artsakh, ARFD Syrian Central Committee member, Aleppo Sahakian school headmaster Jirayr Reisian, Israel Hay Dat Office Executive Georget Avagian, ARFD Western Europe Central Committee members Zareh Minasian and Dro Ekmekjian (France). The guests in their talk with the Minister presented the goals of the Artsakh conference, the range of the issues discussed, and the national significance of the decisions made. According to the ARFD figures, the problems discussed at the conference completely involve the problems faced by the Armenian people and the Armenian state, the starting point of which is the problems the Armenians worldwide are concerned with: the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Cause, and there is a need of showing a common approach in any issue regarding them. They expressed their concern in the respect of making competent the Armenian communities and especially Armenian youth of Diaspora over the above mentioned approaches and involving the Armenian youth in national issues. Minister Hranush Hakobian attached importance to holding of such a representative conference on problems all Armenians are concerned with. According to the RA Ministry of Diaspora Press and Public Relations Department, the meeting participants discussed issues regarding preservation of the Armenian identity, in particular, attached importance to solving the issue of providing assistance to the only Armenian everyday school in the city of Marseille, France. The Diasporan figures also expressed concern over issues related to transportation of textbooks, fiction as there are libraries that have not received literature printed in Armenia more than 20 years. The guests also inquired about the process of the program Come Home and expressed readiness to assist 50 children in October to come to Armenia from France and to take part in the program.

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