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    "IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS" SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN
    By Armen Manvelian

    AZG Armenian Daily
    10/06/2008
    Yerevan

    Science

    A scientific conference under heading "Iran and the Caucasus;
    unity and variety" was held at Golden Palace hotel in Yerevan on
    June 6. The conference was organized by "Iran and the Caucasus"
    international oriental journal (Leiden, Holland, www.brill.nl/ic)
    with the cooperation of CIS Chair of Iranian Studies, Caucasian
    Center for Iranian Studies (Yerevan), ARIA International University
    (founders "Grand Holding" company and the Islamic Republic of Iran),
    Scientific Research Center for Iranian Modern History (Tehran) and
    Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD)
    (Yerevan).

    More than 80 scientists from 22 countries of the world and 20
    scientists of Armenia participated in the two-day conference. Political
    figures and diplomats were also invited to the conference.

    The welcome speech was delivered by the organizer of the conference,
    Head of the Yerevan State University Department of Iranian Studies,
    Editor-in-chief of "Iran and the Caucasus" journal and Rector of ARIA
    International University Garnik Asatrian. According to him, there
    are high hopes that the conference will give Armenia an opportunity
    to become a big scientific center of social sciences. He mentioned
    that the conference is the first one in the world that with its
    subject-matter and clear statements of questions involves the whole
    Iranian-Caucasian region in one scientific direction - from Central
    Asia to Bosporus and from Derbend to Persian Gulf.

    Issues and questions of almost all regional directions of social
    sciences were discussed during the conference - history, literature,
    linguistics, art, culture, politics, anthropology, archeology,
    religion, historical and political geography, etc.

    Representative of Iranian Modern History Institute Mussa Haqanii,
    Rector of Yerevan State University Aram Simonian and others also
    delivered speeches.

    The main themes of the discussions were regional developments,
    Armenian-Iranian relations, the Kurdish question, the role of Russia
    in the region, etc.

    The conference will be continual and will unite scientists and experts
    on regional issues in Armenia once every two years.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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