Regular meeting of office adjacent to RA Minister of
Diaspora takes place
03-08-2009 14:50:00 | Armenia | Social
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.