YEREVAN, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU) and the United Nations representative office jointly celebrated a Chinese Language Day here on Friday.

The event was to introduce to the Armenian people the richness and history of Chinese and build a stronger partnership between the two nations, U.N. Resident Coordinator and UNDP Representative Dafina Gercheva said in her welcome speech at the function.

Zhao Mingwen, charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Armenia, thanked the U.N. representative office and YSLU for holding such an activity and hoped more Armenian students would learn Chinese and help further promote ties between China and Armenia through language study.

YSLU Rector Suren Zolyan, and Naira Grigoryan, director of the Confucius Educational and Cultural Center of YSLU, also attended the celebration.

The event was co-organized by the U.N. Department of Public Information and the Confucius Educational and Cultural Center of YSLU.