YEREVAN, JULY 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The launching of the Armenian-Swedish dictionary published in Stockholm took place on June 29 at the National Library of Armenia. The dictionary including more than 30 thousand words has been assembled by Poghos Aro, a Swedish Armenian translator. David Sargsian, the Director of the National Library of Armenia, said that this dictionary will enable Armenians living in Sweden to learn Swedish without any other languages and to communicate with that country's people without difficulty. D. Sargsian said that soon the National Library of Armenia will sign cooperation programs with a number of Swedish libraries in order to activize the Armenian-Swedish relations, in particular, in the library sphere. Armenian books will be sent to those libraries from Armenia. P. Aro said that the number of Armenians residing in Sweden increases year by year, but the most part of them is faced by a number of problems due to not knowing the Swedish language. "I decided to publish this dictionary for the purpose of helping Armenians. I think Armenians will be able to easily master Swedish thanks to the dictionary," he said adding that he is also going to publish a Swedish-Armenian dictionary in 2008.

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