YEREVAN. - Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan attended the opening of Yerevan’s Vahe Karapetian Center of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU). The center was opened by AGBU President Perch Sedrakian and the founder of the center, U.S. benefactor Vahe Karapetian.

The center will become a home and bridge for the development and enhancement of homeland-Diaspora relations, as well as for expanding the activity of AGBU mission in Armenia mission.

The center will carry out various youth, cultural and education programs; it will also hold different conferences and meetings.

It will also receive hundreds of Diaspora youth and school groups, who come from different countries of the world to take part in the annual AGBU summer programs.

Sargsyan toured the center and familiarized himself with the conditions created for its operation, as well as its upcoming programs.

Armenia’s President also visited the “Center for Coordination of Syrian Armenians; Issues,” which supports the Syrian Armenians who turn to them.

In the framework of the opening ceremony, Vahe Karapetian was bestowed with the AGBU gold medal.