YEREVAN, August 13 (Noyan Tapan). Over 70 delegates from 18 hubs of the Diaspora participated in the Pan-Diaspora Conference on Armenian Education held in Antelias on August 5-7. The Pan-Diaspora Conference was held under the patronage of His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great Cilician House. Hranush Hakobian, Chairwoman of the RA NA Commission on Education, Science, Culture and Youth Affairs, and Levon Ananian, Chairman of the Armenian Writers’ Union (AWU), represented Armenia at the conference. The AWU Chairman told NT’s correspondent that reports entitled “Current Situation of Armenian Education by Statistic Data and Estimation of Results of Armenian Education”, “Prospects of Armenian Education”, “Role of Children’s-Junior Literature in Armenian Education”, as well as other reports were heard during the conference. According to Levon Ananian, “the conference showed that the primary problems in the educational-cultural sphere are put before the Diaspora”. That’s why participants of the conference considered that it is necessary to pay special attention to the development of the children’s-junior literature, because the aesthetic education should start from childhood. Levon Ananian mentioned that the work should be carried out in order that the children’s books should be published in Armenia both in Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian. The problem of the closing of the Melgonian Gymnasia of Cyprus was also touched upon during the conference. According to Levon Ananian, this anti-national policies should be stopped. “Our national structures and foundations resolve their problems in narrow circles, meanwhile problems agitating the Armenian people should be submitted for open discussion,” said the Chairman of the Armenian Writers’ Union. Levon Ananian said that the problem was arisen during the conference to establish the Pan-Armenian Educational Center in Beirut and the Open University in Aleppo. “This conference is a fine simulus, which should contribute to the Pan-Armenian forum to be held in Tsaghkadzor on August 27-29, because if there is the Armenian school, there is the Armenian nation, if there is no Armenian school, it means there is no Armenian nation. And the school in the Diaspora is the stronghold of the Armenian preservation,” Levon Ananian concluded.
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