YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Serious reforms take place today in the educational field of Armenia, and their consonant responnse in Nagorno Karabakh, where the system change is also a primary task, is also important. It was mentioned at the October 23 meeting of Levon Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of Education and Science, and Karo Atayan, the NKR Minister of Education, Culture and Youth Issues. According to the information submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA Ministry of Education and Science, programs of the two countries' cooperation in the education sphere during the coming years were discussed at the meeting. The first program on the Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh cooperation in the sphere of education was signed still in 1999. Summing up steps taken within its framework, the sides discussed new programs to be implemented in the spheres of both secondary education and higher one. An agreement was reached between the Ministers to meet in Nagorno Karabakh during the second ten days of November to fix the discussion results by a new document and adopt the clear schedule of implementation of the programs.

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