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UNESCO TO TAKE ACTIVE PART IN CELEBRATIONS OF 1,600TH ANNIVERSARY OF
ARMENIAN ALPHABET
YEREVAN, JANUARY 10. ARMINFO. UNESCO will take an active part in the
celebrations of the 1,600th anniversary of the Armenian alphabet, says
the secretary general of UNESCO national commission of Armenia's
foreign ministry Karina Daniyelyan.
She says that UNESCO will finance an international scientific
conference on Armenian studies to be held jointly with the National
Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
Over 20 large-scale events are planned in the framework of the
celebrations. The whole country will celebrate the date throughout
the year. A dramatized show "Alphabet Procession" will be started in
the ancient city of Yervandashat to end in the Hole See of
Echmiadzin. The Day of Translator will be marked especially solemnly
in the village of Oshakan, the homeland of the author of the Armenian
alphabet Mesrop Mashtots.
An e-conference "Information Technologies sand Armenian Letters" will
be held during the year.
The festivities will be held not only in Armenia but in Nagorny
Karabakh, the Javakheti region of Georgia and in the Diaspora. The
celebrations will be crowned in Oct by a show in the National Opera
House.
Armenia's Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan has instructed his
subordinate relevant commission to draft and present a program of
festivities by Jan 15 2005.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
ARMENIAN ALPHABET
YEREVAN, JANUARY 10. ARMINFO. UNESCO will take an active part in the
celebrations of the 1,600th anniversary of the Armenian alphabet, says
the secretary general of UNESCO national commission of Armenia's
foreign ministry Karina Daniyelyan.
She says that UNESCO will finance an international scientific
conference on Armenian studies to be held jointly with the National
Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
Over 20 large-scale events are planned in the framework of the
celebrations. The whole country will celebrate the date throughout
the year. A dramatized show "Alphabet Procession" will be started in
the ancient city of Yervandashat to end in the Hole See of
Echmiadzin. The Day of Translator will be marked especially solemnly
in the village of Oshakan, the homeland of the author of the Armenian
alphabet Mesrop Mashtots.
An e-conference "Information Technologies sand Armenian Letters" will
be held during the year.
The festivities will be held not only in Armenia but in Nagorny
Karabakh, the Javakheti region of Georgia and in the Diaspora. The
celebrations will be crowned in Oct by a show in the National Opera
House.
Armenia's Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan has instructed his
subordinate relevant commission to draft and present a program of
festivities by Jan 15 2005.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress