Friday, March 15 2019 14:24

ArmInfo. Management, faculty and officers of the Military- Sports Lyceum after Monte Melkonyan responded to the statement of the head of the Committee on State  Property Management of Armenia Narek Babayan about the unreasonable  misuse of the Ministry of Finance Training Center in Dilijan, in  which more than a dozen million dollars were invested.

As noted in the statement of the leadership of the lyceum received by  ArmInfo, they once again sadly state that the head of the Committee  on State Property Management, Narek Babayan, simply does not know the  situation and information.

The management, teaching and officers of the military-sports lyceum  closely follow the publications in the media regarding the lyceum. As  a result, they are ready to refute a number of statements, in  particular, Babayan that about 100 cadets study at the Lyceum. "The  2018-2019 school year began with 215 cadets, today there are 190.  Next year we plan to accept 250 cadets," they say.

In addition, as noted by the management of the Lyceum, the hotel and  cottages on the territory of the training center are not at all idle,  as Babayan claims. The teaching and officers of the Lyceum use them,  and from this year they will be used for their intended purpose. Only  in 2018, there were as many as two seminars and forums sponsored by  the EU at the Lyceum. "The lyceum has also become an indispensable  harbor for high-ranking guests of the Defense Ministry and for  conducting various programs," they note.

The cottages are also not idle: in 3 of them there are lyceum heads,  who are visited by family members from time to time, in one cottage  there is a first-aid post, and in the rest there are guests -  prominent military figures and intellectuals who come to the center  with lectures. At the same time, as they point out, Narek Babayan  should not doubt the managerial qualities of the management of the  lyceum, who has management experience in various structures.

Yesterday of the conversation with journalists, head of the State  Committee on Property Management, Narek Babayan, said that the  inappropriate use of the training center of the State Revenue  Committee of Armenia is unacceptable. According to him, Lyceum after  Monte Melkonyan should be provided with good conditions, but we do  not have the right to commit to inaction such a construction with  multi-million investments, for the preservation of which we continue  to allocate huge funds and not benefit from them.  At the same time,  as he pointed out, the hotel can claim the title of "luxury". "Of  course, lyceum cadets should be provided with good conditions, but  this does not mean that a lyceum with 100 students should be given an  area of 8 hectares with excellent luxury living conditions," he said,  urging to refrain from manipulating in the context of the fact that  the soldier worthy of the best conditions. The construction of the  training center of the Ministry of Finance caused in its time loud  discussions in connection with the costs that the Ministry of Finance  at the expense of state funds directs to its equipment. There and  spas, saunas, a restaurant, several cafes and tennis courts, a  separate hotel. Furnished object, to put it mildly, luxurious.  Only  according to official documents, 26 billion drams, or about $ 60  million, were spent on all this from the state budget. Let us say,  for comparison, that the construction in the center of Yerevan of a  huge hotel under an international brand required $ 23 million.