YEREVAN, JULY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Artur Poghosian, the RA Deputy Minister of Culture, the Director of the All-Armenian Youth Foundation, considers that young forces' active participation is necessary for ensuring permanence of any process. As he mentioned in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent during the break of the All Armenian Youth International Conference that started on July 9, the youth play an especially important role in the issue of deepening and development of Armenia-Diaspora and Diaspora-Diaspora contacts. The Deputy Minister said that the state supports and finances different youth events within the framework of the strategy of the state youth policy in Armenia. However, only with the state assistance it is impossible to develop contacts between the youth of Armenia and the Diaspora: state-Diaspora "equal partnership" is needed for that. A. Poghosian said that the conference, being properly organized, gives him the hope that it will contribute to establishment of those relations at the level of the youth. In his words, the "self-critical" speeches of the conference participants make it clear that the youth of any community of the Diaspora still has the problem of being organized.

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