ArmInfo. To abolish the Ministry of Culture in the conditions of state vandalism in Azerbaijan and Turkey is tantamount to a crime. A specialist on monuments Samvel Karapetyan expressed such an opinion at a press conference.
"In the conditions of a globalizing world, encroachments from unfriendly neighbors on our history and culture, it is simply illogical to abolish the Ministry of Culture, I just don't want to see bias in all of this," the expert said, stressing that for such small nations as Armenian, culture is like "spine" in the preservation of national identity. "By abolishing Ministry of Culture we break this spine," Karapetyan explained.
He also expressed bewilderment in connection with the abolition of the Ministry of Diaspora: "How can a country, 3/4 of whose population lives abroad, not have a Ministry of Diaspora?" leave 12. According to the document, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Science will be merged into one single ministry. The next decision is to abolish the Ministry of Diaspora; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will perform its functions. The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies will be renamed the Ministry of High Technologies and the MIC. The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources will be merged with the Ministry of Territorial Administration. The Ministry of Agriculture will be part of the Ministry of Economic Development.