Narine Margaryan will temporarily act as director of Museum-Institute  of Armenian Genocide

ArmInfo.The Fund's "Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide" Foundation held its first meeting on July 3. A number of issues are on the agenda, including  discussion and approval of the charter of the Board of Trustees of  the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation and the rules for  electing the director. Deputy Minister of Education and Science  Hovhannes Hovhannisyan also participated in the meeting.

According to Councilor Hranush Kharatyan, the order of Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan has already approved the composition of the Board of  Trustees of the Fund. At the end of the meeting, Raymond Gevorgyan  was unanimously elected chairman of the Board of Trustees, Vladimir  Vardanyan as secretary.  And Gevorgyan himself was not present at the  meeting, he informed in writing about his consent. The current  director of Hayk Demoyan is not a member of the Board of Trustees.

In the course of the meeting, it was also decided that the academic  secretary of the Council, Narine Margaryan, should appoint acting  secretary. Director of the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide,  and a tender for the post of director to be announced within 5 days.  The results will be announced in 3 months.

To recall, serious passions flared between former director of the  Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide Hayk Demoyan and the head  of the Ministry of Education of the Republic Araik Harutyunyan and  his deputy Hovhannes Hovhannisyan. The ex-director of the  museum-institute on his Facebook page accused the minister of not  having the right to enter his office. Demoyan also turned to  personalities, revealing, as he believes, some intimate and  "unconventional" moments from the past of Harutyunyan and his deputy  Hovhannes Hovhannisyan. Later he wrote a new post, inviting the  minister to a public discussion in the form of a press conference. In  response, in a conversation with reporters, the head of the MES said  that he does not want to go down to the level of Demoyan and does not  intend to meet with him.  According to him, firstly, Demoyan is not  the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, in December  of last year it was decided that SNCO "Museum-Institute of the  Armenian Genocide" becomes a fund, and the acting director of the  structure became Gevorg Vardanyan. Demoyan was not in Armenia at that  time, he left for the US in September 2017, and after his departure  and before the reformation of the institute, Suren Manukyan was in  the lead. "As for the visit to the museum-institute, I have a full  right to do it as a minister," Harutyunyan said. He also said that he  was going to apply to the police chief to "call this impostor to  order." The head of the MES urged Demoyan not to confuse the  atmosphere of love and solidarity with permissiveness and not to be  guided by personal whims.