State Minister’s Office for Reconciliation and Civic Equality hosted a reception for the teachers of Azerbaijani and Armenian languages and literature at “Ambasadori Hotel.”
“Congratulations on the International Mother Language Day, which is a professional day for you indeed. On behalf of Georgia, I would like to extend my thanks to you and confirm that our undertakings for the protection of language and culture of ethnic minorities will be sustainable in future as well. Georgia has more than 200 public schools, where the ethnic minority representatives are taught into their native language. Our objective is that ethnic minorities, who graduate from schools into native language, are proficient into State Language as well. We should tutor our citizens, who are fully-fledged members of our society and their identities enjoy preservation, at the same time,” – Mr. Paata Zakareishvili declared.
Approximately 50 teachers of Azerbaijani and Armenian languages and literature from Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti were granted deeds and symbolic gifts for the “Contribution to the Teaching and Protection of Native Language.”
The First Deputy State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality Mrs. Ketevan Tsikhelashvili and the Deputy Minister for Education and Science Ms. Lia Gigauri took part into the meeting as well.
The reception took place in honor of the International Mother Language Day, on February 21.