YEREVAN. – This is the third year that Armenia’s diplomatic representation at the United Nations (UN) is conducting a special summer internship for the Diaspora-Armenian university students.   

The objective of this internship is to familiarize the Armenian graduate-year students from the universities of a variety of countries with Armenia’s priorities in the UN, the Armenian delegations’ activities, UN programs in Armenia, and the activities of the organization’s primary agencies.   

By way of the lectures delivered by Armenia’s Ambassador to UN, Karen Nazaryan, and the practical courses, these interns are acquiring a better understanding of urgent international matters, are preparing reports, visiting the UN and attending the sessions of its bodies, and meeting with UN Secretariat representatives and foreign diplomatic mission chiefs, Armenian MFA press service informs.  

The summer internship also includes visits to vastly-Armenian-populated centers of the US East Coast, and meetings with representatives from the local Armenian community.       

This year’s interns were from the US, Canada, Great Britain, and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.