{"id":77953,"date":"2016-05-22T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=77953"},"modified":"2016-05-22T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T12:09:31","slug":"armenian-culture-ministry-offers-expertise-support-for-palmyra-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=77953","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Culture Ministry offers expertise support for Palmyra restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 The Armenian Culture Ministry offered putting its experience and expertise at disposal for restoring the historical site of Palmyra.<\/p>\n<p>The offer came in a letter sent by the Armenian Culture Minister, which the Syrian counterpart Issam Khalil said was received &#8220;with deep appreciation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His appreciation was expressed in statements to reporters following a meeting with the Armenian Ambassador in Damascus Arshak Poladian.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to means of cooperation in the cultural affairs, both sides also discussed the letter and the Armenian offer included in it.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister noted that a national committee has been formed to draw up the necessary plans for the restoration of Palmyra.<\/p>\n<p>Palmyra-a UNESCO World Heritage site-was retaken from ISIS terrorist organization last March along with the residential neighborhoods in the city-also known as Tadmur.<\/p>\n<p>Archeological monuments and artifacts in Palmyra sustained severe damage due to deliberate acts of demolition and vandalism inflicted by ISIS terrorists since they took over the city in May 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Higher-Education-Minister-Armenian-Ambassador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-77954\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Higher-Education-Minister-Armenian-Ambassador-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Higher Education Minister-Armenian Ambassador\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Higher-Education-Minister-Armenian-Ambassador-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Higher-Education-Minister-Armenian-Ambassador.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a relevant context, a separate meeting was held between the Armenian Ambassador and Minister of Higher Education Mohammad Amer al-Mardini.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions focused on the scientific cooperation relations and mechanisms to renew the executive program of the joint Syrian-Armenian cultural cooperation agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The files of equating certificates and exchange of scholarships and visits of academic delegation were also on the table.<\/p>\n<p>H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 The Armenian Culture Ministry offered putting its experience and expertise at disposal for restoring the historical site of Palmyra. The offer came in a letter sent by the Armenian Culture Minister, which the Syrian counterpart Issam Khalil said was received &#8220;with deep appreciation&#8221;. His appreciation was expressed in statements to reporters following &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6990,8,6987,115,106],"tags":[3241,5966,7860,10018,5582],"class_list":["post-77953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-archeology","category-arts-culture","category-latest-news","category-local","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-armenia","tag-armenian-ambassador-in-damascus-arshak-poladian","tag-culture-minister-issam-khalil","tag-minister-of-higher-education-mohammad-amer-al-mardini","tag-palmyra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}