Tuesday, 18 January 2005
Today, at the Office of Government, the jubilee commission for preparation of the 1600th anniversary of the Armenian alphabet has held a meeting presided at by Prime Minister A. Margaryan.
The commission was briefed on the progress in the implementation of the assignments given at the previous meeting. Following an extensive discussion, the venues and timings of the projected events, as well as the persons in charge of financial and organizational matters were determined. According to the latest draft of the program, the jubilee events will start in May-June, 2005, with a nationwide festival of recitation, open lessons held at schools and higher educational institutions, contests of written essays, student symposia, the founding of Amaras School in Artsakh, several scientific and cultural events dedicated to the 1600th anniversary of the Mesropian alphabet, as well as an e-conference referred to as "The ITs and the Armenian Alphabet." An all-republican symposium (biennial) of sculpture will be held at Artashat in August. An international symposium and a workshop on the historical significance of the Mesropian Alphabet is scheduled in September. To crown all, a theatrical performance entitled "Grotz Yerth" will be organized in the jubilee year to reproduce Mesrop Mashtotz's return to homeland, the traditional Translators
