Today, June 12, Yerevan hosted a seminar on protection of ethnic minorities, with head of Armenian government’s Ethnic Minorities and Religious Affairs Department delivering a report.

Vardan Ascatryan noted that the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities(FCNM) aimed to foster the maintenance of ethnic minorities’ culture.

The seminar pursued the goal to detect minorities’ problems through discussions and offer possible solutions to them.

Series of events have been held in Armenia since 2000, in the framework of which text books and newspapers were published.

Ethnic minorities comprised 2.5% of total population in 2011, with Yazidis representing the largest number (about 40 thous.); while the number of Jews, Germans, Poles and Belarusians didn’t exceed 1000.