Armenia has launched a program to support national minorities and vulnerable ethnic groups in Yerevan today, News Armenia reports.
The program is to spread cultural heritage and will last for 3 years. The first year will be devoted to aid national minorities in 10 Armenian regions, coordinator of the Organization for Development of Civil Society Arpine Akopyan said. The program will be in force in Chambarak, Lukashin, Metsamor, Ranchpar, Shamiram, Allaverdi, Mets Ayrum, Agavnavank, Dilijan and Azatan. It will support preservation of diversity.
National minorities may take part in the process by giving own ideas for preservation of cultural values. They may visit Ukraine and Poland.
Shushanik Saratikyan, expert for national minorities and religion of the Armenian president’s office, noted that there is no cultural inequality in Armenia Administration offers assistance in cultural development.
2.3% of the population in Armenia is national minorities. Armenia has 11 national minorities with Yezgins as the largest of them, consisting of 40,500 people, followed by Russians, Kurds and Greeks.
The program was organized by the Fund for Civil Development and Cooperation, Organization for Development of the Civil Society with assistance of the GURT resource center of the EU.
