The former rector of Yerevan State University, Republican Party member Aram Simonyan also participated in the Republican Party’s pilgrimage.
Reporters asked Aram Simonyan to evaluate the current situation at Yerevan State University. “It will be clear within the following months. Overall, it’s normal, it’s the way it always was. There is nothing special going on, and there was no time to make any changes. Therefore, only time will tell,” Aram Simonyan said.
When asked if his resignation was due to political reasons or if there were other reasons for it. Aram Simonyan said that there were many circumstances surrounding it. “But I needed to resign due to my own will to do so, not because others wanted me to. I wanted to do it, so I resigned. I realized that staying would put the university in danger as well as its 100th anniversary, so I resigned.”
Aram Simonyan does not regret his resignation, but he does regret the work that he didn’t finish. “I am now working in research as a professor. I am having an interesting experience and am free of worries,” Simonyan said, adding that he isn’t interested in what people are saying about him at the university. “I am not interested in all of that because I am working at the Armenian studies research institute. There is a lot of very interesting work to do there. I am busy with all of that work.”
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When asked whom he would trust to be the university director, Simonyan said, “Whomever the Board of Trustees decides upon. I don’t have trust issues, I am free of everything.”
Reporters said that in the past, people were saying that the university is politicized and asked if he agrees with that now. “This was never a problem and it isn’t one now.”
Nelly Grigoryan
