YEREVAN, JUNE 24, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. On the initiative of the FAR Yerevan Office, RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian received a group of young people from Diaspora, who are for the first time in the homeland and have come from New Jersey, Boston, and Marseille to hold their student practice in Armenia. Minister Hranush Hakobian said that she attaches much importance to deepening of contacts of young people from Diaspora with the homeland, to their opinion and reflections over all national and all Armenian programs, and in general, over the general progress of our state and our people. According to the Minister, it is not accidental that problems regarding Diaspora's youth are included in almost all programs of the Ministry of Diaspora. Mrs Hakobian reminded to her guests, young people the necessity of keeping the most important and necessary components of preservation of Armenian identity. Besides, the Minister emphasized the importance of revealing the Armenian potential worldwide and using it for homeland's strengthening. Mrs Hakobian in general outline presented Ministry's programs, in implementation of which active participation of Diaspora's young people can only ensure the desirable result. According to the RA Ministry of Diaspora Press and Public Relations Department, the Diasporan Armenians hosted by the Minister are specialists of various spheres and successfully work at various institutions abroad. Their questions to the Minister mainly regarded the general concerns of the Armenians worldwide: danger of assimilation, loss of Armenian identity, mixed marriages, danger of separating from the Armenian community, etc. Minister's answer to these concerns was exact: the difficult and responsible mission of preventing possible undesirable developments and inspiring an Armenian with Armenia-Diaspora cooperation, keeping the Armenian identity and making an Armenian live with the Homeland, in addition to Diasporan organizations, also lays on the RA Ministry of Diaspora, and, according to the Minister, the youth of Diaspora should also take an active part in solution of the problems put forward by the Ministry as far as possible. The young people got inspired with Minister's speech and expressed a resolution to constantly keep up with the RA Ministry of Diaspora programs through Internet and Hayern Aysor electronic newspaper and to assist their implementation as far as possible.

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