ArmInfo. Ashot Markarian, Deputy Minister of Labor for Social Issues, resigns. He wrote about this on his Facebook page. "It was a great honor and a great responsibility for me to work as Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia, for which I am grateful to Karen Karapetyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.
I have had time to get acquainted with the problems of the social sphere and submit proposals on their solution for five months. That the decision to leave the post of Deputy Minister turned out to be difficult for me, because there were unfinished reforms. In the coming years I do not see myself in the system of state administration or in political activity. Ryu all my colleagues for the effective cooperation ", -Markarian wrote.
According to ArmInfo sources in the Ministry of Labor for Social Affairs, Markaryan had serious contradictions with Minister Artem Asatryan and his closest associates, who were very jealous of the 28-year-old deputy minister, often torpedoing his activities. Ashot Markaryan was appointed Deputy Minister by decision of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia on February 6 this year. In 2014-2016 he was the assistant to the Prime Minister of Karabakh, and since October 18, 2016 - the assistant to the head of the Armenian government.