YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, NOYAN TAPAN. Participation of Armenian publishing houses in different international exhibitions became oftener during the recent years. As Eduard Militonian, the Chief of the Publishing Affair Agency of the RA Ministry of Culture and Youth Issues informed at the October 27 press conference, besides the participation in the Moscow and Frankfurt international exhibition-fairs, books published with the assistance of the agency and a number of Armenian publishing houses, were presented in the U.S., Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Turkey, enjoying visitors' attention and high estimation. E.Militonian emphasized that the Armenian literature and culture are not only presented and propagandized with the help of those exhibitions, but practical ties are established among Armenian and foreign publishers. In E.Militonian's words, the number of books being published by the state order was added during the recent years: 261 titles of historical, encyclopedic, fiction, children's and other books were published only in 2004-2005. It was also mentioned that the RA Government allocated 20 mln drams (about 50 thousand U.S. dollars) for translating Armenian literature into different languages. The modern Armenian prose has already been published in the Russian, English, French languages, and will be published soon in Persian and Spain as well. The Chief of the agency stated that Armenian publishers envisage to hold in Armenia an international exhibition of book the next year. It was also mentioned that it was proposed to annouce a year of young readers in Armenia in 2007.

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