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09, 2009

President Serzh Sargsyan met with the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the CIS countries Farid Mukhametshin

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Today, President Serzh Sargsyan met with the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the CIS countries, Head of the Federal Agency for CIS issues Farid Mukhametshin. He arrived to Armenia to participate in the Days of the Russian Language in Armenia which is being organized under the high patronage of the Presidents of Armenia and Russia.

The President of Armenia noted with satisfaction that the Days of the Russian Language in our country were becoming a good tradition and unalienable part of humanitarian cooperation of the two countries.

The parties stressed the important role of the Russian language as a means of intercultural contacts. Serzh Sargsyan said that Russian was a mandatory course in all secondary schools in Armenia and that steps were being taken to upgrade the level of teaching Russian in the colleges and universities.

The two sides spoke also about the Armenian-Russian Slavic University, joint cultural and educational programs, and new possibilities for cooperation in the humanitarian area.

President Sargsyan underscored the importance of cooperation in the humanitarian area and noted that it brings the two nations closer and strengthens friendship of the two states.

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