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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