The real friendship between two neighbouring countries begins in the children's hearts

20 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Intergovernmental conflicts, interracial small impacts and even wars have been typical to this postsoviet period of time. I don't want to bring examples. They are known to everybody. News about these conflicts have deluged the whole media world. It seems as if we can read claims and declarations about friendship among different nations only in intergovernmental diplomatic documents, but it is impossible to deny that the real friendship between nations is created from beneath, just from common people. With this respect an incalculable service has been rendered by Georgi Momtselidze, the headmaster of School 98 in Tbilisi, and Ashot Bleyan, the director of the "Mkhitar Sebastatsi" Educomplex. The 5th year of collaboration of these two educational institutions is in process. Hundreds of Armenian and Georgian learners and teachers have exchanged visits to Yerevan and Tbilisi and have realized joint projects. These projects have been realized also thanks to parents who hosted the children of the neighbouring country in their homes.  It has already become a tradition to mark the Georgian Language Day in our Educomplex, and it is the fourth time that Mr. Tengiz Sharmanashvili, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, has participated in it. This is one of the best manifestations of real friendship among the postsoviet independent countries.