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    REGULAR MEETING OF OFFICE ADJACENT TO RA MINISTER OF DIASPORA TAKES PLACE

    Noyan Tapan
    Aug 3, 2009

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 3, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The draft of the
    Program Stimulating Process of Repatriation as well as issues relating
    to letters from citizens got by the RA Ministry of Diaspora in the
    first hall of 2009, events dedicated to the one-year celebration
    of the Ministry, activity of the One Nation, One Culture fund were
    discussed on the agenda of the July 31 meeting of the office adjacent
    of the RA Minister of Diaspora.

    At the beginning RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian stated that
    the first two-week stage of the Come Home program was finished. Its
    final event, the farewell evening was held with RA President Serzh
    Sargsyan's participation. Many of the meeting participants assured
    that the first stage of the Come Home program passed with success
    and assist development of ties between both Homeland-Diaspora and
    different communities of Diaspora.

    According to the Press and Publuc Relations Department of the
    RA Ministry of Diaspora, based on the fact that repatriation
    is observed in the RA President's and RA government's programs
    as the most important element of the state policy as well as
    taking into consideration the importance of repatriation for
    solution of the demographic problems of the Republic of Armenia
    and territorial-military problems of the republic, the Ministry of
    Diaspora remade the draft of the program stimulating the process of
    repatriation .

    The draft involves the problems existing in the difficult and
    many-stage process of repatriation, involving joint consistent
    activity of the Homeland and Diaspora, including complete integration
    of repatriates in the public, political, cultural and social-economic
    life of Armenia.

    In the sense of protecting the Armenian identity, different parts
    of the Diasporan Armenians from the process of being estranged
    and returning them to the Homeland, repatriation, in general, is
    the pledge of keeping Armenian identity, so members of the office
    adjacent to the RA Ministry of Diaspora made a decision to assume the
    worked out document as a basis: draft to Program Stimulating Process
    of Repatriation.

    The Program Stimulating Process of Repatriation consists of the
    following sections:

    1. Stages and structures of organization of the process of
    repatriation,

    2. Problems of integration of repatriates and ways of their solution,

    3. The goal, problems and principles of the RA Law on Repatriation.

    The next issue of the agenda touched upon the works done by the
    RA Ministry of Diaspora in the first half of 2009, reception of
    citizens of Armenia and foreign ones, their proposals, applications
    and protests. According to Staff Secretariate Chief of the RA
    Ministry of Diaspora Gayane Mkhitarian, 899 proposals, applications
    and protests of most various character (671 from RA citizens, 228
    from foreign citizens) were got at the Ministry in the period of
    time from 08.01.2009-01.07.2009. All the got letters were put in
    corresponding process.

    The list of events dedicated to the one-year anniversary of the
    RA Ministry of Diaspora was introduced to the office members. It
    involved most various events presenting the one-year activity of
    the RA Ministry of Diaspora, a special issue of the Hayern Aysor
    electronic newspaper, Armenian and English language publication
    of the collection of official materials on the Homeland-Diaspora
    collaboration, formation of a presentation, etc.

    The next issue of the agenda touched upon programs of the One
    Nation, One Culture fund. The fund, in keeping with its programs,
    implemented preliminary activities in Armenia and Diaspora for proper
    organization of the One Nation, One Culture festival in 2010. It was
    considered necessary to organize and assist preparation and training
    of specialists of the sphere of culture, creation of information data
    base and net, activities on development of cultural business in the
    RA. The list of programs implemented by the One Nation, One Culture
    fund as well as of events scheduled for the second half of 2009 and
    for 2010 was also represented.
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