Saturday, December 22 2018 12:21

ArmInfo. Having considered the draft law on amending and supplementing the law on the "Structure and Functioning of the Government," the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Supreme  Body expresses deep concern about a number of proposed amendments.The  ARFD report received by ArmInfo, in particular, states: "The  Government's initiative to unite ministries, reorganize and dissolve  a number of government bodies without developing a concept, proper  justification and public discussion does not stand up to criticism. 

Such a controversial decision is fraught with serious  consequences."Without denying the need to improve the effectiveness  of the public administration system through optimization, the party  simultaneously considers unacceptable any hasty and hasty actions.  Particularly unacceptable for ARF is that the feasibility of the  existence of the Ministry of Diaspora and the Ministry of Culture as  separate state bodies is questioned."It would seem that the  Government's goal of raising relations with the diaspora to a new  level and organizing a major repatriation should have led to the  adoption of new conceptual approaches.  However, instead of  reassessing the activities of the Ministry of Diaspora, it was  decided to dissolve the Ministry without wide, comprehensive public  and expert discussion. the closure of the Ministry of Diaspora,  partially covering the gap of the lack of an all-Armenian  organization, will certainly find its negative reaction from our  compatriots for rubles pulp "- said in a statement.

 According to the authors of the statement, regardless of whether the  aforementioned Ministry succeeded in accomplishing the tasks, it "was  intended to become not only the main link between the state and  Armenians living abroad, but also a manifestation of the ideological  approach to perceiving Armenians as ONE and WHOLE." "Strengthening  the diaspora is a strategically important issue and one of the key  guarantees of security and progress of the motherland," they  noted.The ARF Supreme Body Dashnaktsutyun calls for a review of the  draft law "On the Structure and Functioning of the Government" and,  in particular, to return the true mission of the Ministry of Diaspora  on the basis of a revised and reformed agenda. It should be noted  that employees of the disbanded ministries of culture and the  Diaspora held a protest rally the day before, demanding that the  government not liquidate these departments.  Meanwhile, the Armenian  government plans to liquidate the Ministry of Culture, and one part  of its departments to merge with the Ministry of Education and  Science, the other - with the City Planning Committee. What will  happen to the functions of the Mindiaspore is not yet known, but as  the other day noted. 

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in the functions of almost all  Armenian ministries there is a component of working with the  Diaspora. As pointed out the other day. head of the government, as a  result of reforming the structure of the Government in Armenia,  instead of 17 ministries,12. Note that months earlier one of  Pashinyan's advisers announced the government's intention to reduce  about 100 thousand public sector employees, of about 240 thousand  employees employed in the state apparatus.