RIGA, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Deputy Minister of Culture Nerses Ter-Vardanyan on April 4 had a meeting with Minister of Culture of Latvia Dace Melbārde during which they discussed all possible ways of cooperation, including the partnership in cinematography, literature, music fields.

“At the meeting we talked about the joint production of movies since both countries have the necessary preconditions to receive support for film-making. An important fact is that Armenia and Latvia are members of the European ‘Eurimage’ program which enables to receive funding for joint movie production. There was also a talk on screening the Latvian films within the frames of “Golden Apricot” Film Festival”, the Deputy Culture Minister told Armenpress correspondent.

As for the literature field, the sides talked about translations, participation of festivals. “We emphasized the importance of translations of Latvian tales into Armenian, and vice versa. Latvian tales are already being translated into Armenian, we agreed that the Armenian tales will also be translated into Latvian soon, considering the opportunity of their translations under the assistance of the Culture Ministry of Armenia”, he said.

Nerses Ter-Vardanyan said the sides discussed also the issue of Latvian participation in international festivals being held in Armenia, for instance, High Fest, Literary Ark Festival, Aram Khachatryan International Contest. “This year Armenia will join the EU’s ‘Creative Europe’ program which provides funding in case of cooperation with a number of European countries. We agreed that all opportunities must be considered on carrying out large-scale projects and submitting joint applications within the frames of this program”, the Deputy Minister said, adding that they also agreed to make an exchange of experience in the film-making field.

Armenian Culture Days are being held in Latvia within the frames of which a number of events took place. Armenpress news agency signed a cooperation agreement with Leta, photo exhibition of Armenpress was opened dedicated to medieval architecture monuments and Armenian monk, poet, philosopher Gregory of Narek. The presentation of Latvian version of “Book of Lamentations” by Gregory of Narek was held in Riga.