U.S. Embassy donates American Studies textbooks to 3 universities

PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch and representatives of Brusov Yerevan State Linguistic University, Russian-Armenian Slavonic University, and Yerevan State University participated in a book donation ceremony at the U.S. Embassy's Information Resource Center. The U.S. Embassy, through its American Corner program, is donating almost $50,000 (18 million dram) in American Studies textbooks fro area studies programs at the three schools.



In her remarks, Ambassador Yovanovitch noted that, "Learning about other cultures is the key to ensuring mutual understanding between nations," and expressed a hope that the English - language books will be a valuable contribution to the efforts of university faculty and administration, who are actively incorporation American Studies content into their classes.



Representatives of Universities expressed their thanks and highly appreciated cooperation between U.S. Embassy and Republic of Armenia. Russian-Armenian Slavonic University representative on behalf of Rector Armen Darbinyan presented to Marie L. Yovanovitch a letter and souvenir.