At a Yerevan-hosted session, Armenian Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan summed up the results of work aimed at promotion of military and patriotic education conducted in Armenian schools in 2010.

The Minister said that education of Armenia’s youth should be based on two fundamental principles – military-patriotic and civil.

According to Ashotyan, it will allow educating true citizens of the country.

“We strongly believe that defense is the external, while education system is the internal support of the national security,” Ashotyan said, adding that contacts between the army and public should be intensified.