“Changes in the state government apparatus need to come before deep professional discussions. Solving the situation still remains a defective function from the previous authorities. If they needed to give someone a position, a new ministry was formed, and vice versa. Now, it’s the same situation: they don’t have ministers, which is why the ministries are uniting,” managing expert Serob Antinyan told reporters as he joined workers from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Diaspora as they protested against the government.
According to the expert, instead of having a firm approach with the ministries, the government needed to observe which structure needed more workers and what functions needed to be carried out. “It is unacceptable to dissolve ministries. Instead, they needed to conduct research.”
According to a bill drafted by the government, the Ministry of Diaspora will dissolve, and the Ministry of Culture will join the Ministry of Education and Science.
Serob Antinyan described the ministries as being branches. He considers them to be strategic paths. “When the strategic paths of the state unite under one large body, the activities and purposes of those strategies are ruined. Hasty decisions in this case are unacceptable.”
Luiza Sukiasyan
