22 ethnic Armenian students awarded Georgian language certificates
Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani awarding one of the students. Photo: Public Service Development Agency.
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22 ethnic Armenian students from villages of Kumurdo and Poka were awarded the Georgian language certificates by Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani today at the education center of the Justice Ministry in Kvareli, Kakheti region.
The students passed Georgian language courses as part of the government programme aimed at caring for ethnic minorities and supporting their integration with the Georgian-language society.
The government programme has been underway since 2015. About 300 people have already passed the Georgian language courses.
The villages of Kumurdo and Poka, located in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia are predominantly inhibited by ethnic Armenians. About 2% of the residents of the villages are Georgians.
The state project is carried out by the Zurab Zhvania Public Administration School and Public Service Development Agency.
Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have met to discuss how the cooperation in the defence field may be boosted between the two countries.
The fiftieth community centre was opened today in rural Pasanauri, in Georgia’s Mtskheta-Mtianeti region to give residents the opportunity to access a variety of public and private sector services.
Georgia’s Ministry of Justice opened a Community Centre, offering more than 200 public and private sector services, in Gldani City Mall, in the suburb of Tbilisi with more than 300,000 registered people.
The Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection has launched the Live Books campaign to promote the reading of books and literature in Georgia’s regions.
An online course of Georgian language has been made available for ethnic minority students of primary schools in the south of the country, in a project by the Tbilisi-based Business and Technology University.