Yerevan, 28th July 2010 - Rondine is speaking Armenian and is starting to set the basis for its international peace school in Armenia. For the first time since in its history, in fact, a delegation from Rondine has visited Yerevan meeting the summits of three ministries to start collaborations with Armenian universities and local institutions.

During the meetings, Rondine’s president, Prof. Franco Vaccari, officially announced the arrival of the first Armenian student at Rondine and the beginning, for next year, of selections for a student from Nagorno-Karabakh.

The “Friendship trip” to the South Caucasus and Turkey, promoted by the Association Rondine Cittadella della Pace, started from Baku and then stopped in Yerevan, where Rondine’s delegation met the deputy ministers of the Diaspora, Education and Foreign Affairs. It was in these meetings that the organization from Arezzo was requested to select students from Nagorno-Karabakh. “It is important for you to call young students from Nagorno. - said the deputy minister of the Diaspora, Vardan Marashlyan - The project is very interesting and we will help you with the student selection”.

“It is very important to consider the selection of a student from Nagorno-Karabakh - stated the deputy minister for Foreign Affairs, Karine Kazinian - because conflicts can be resolved only through dialogue. Thank you, because your activities promote peace in this area and this is very important for Armenia”.

The deputy minister of Education, Sergey Minasyan, also appreciated the initiative of Rondine’s International hall of Residence, founded on the sharing experience of young students coming from areas in conflict and the promotion of dialogue as an answer to wars. At the end of the meeting Rondine’s delegation handed a copy of the “Document in 14 points for peace in the Caucasus” to the deputy minister who assured the promotion of the text in the universities of Yerevan.

The arrival of the first Armenian student is one of the results of the Conference for peace in the Caucasus which produced the “Document in 14 points”, presented in Yerevan during an international conference in the presence of politicians, scholars, diplomats, youth and representatives of over 25 NGOs. “If it’s true that we desire peace - said Rondine’s president Franco Vaccari - we must give youth the possibility to meet and build their own future. This journey is demonstrating that the desire for peace is everywhere. Rondine’s answer to this are not its good intentions, but concrete facts and stories”.