ArmInfo. Untilthe best conditions have been created, the Monte Lykonyan military high school will not bemoved to another place.
On March 22, Armenian Deputy Minister of Defense Gabriel Balalyan stated in an interview with journalists.He noted that at the moment there is already a decision that this building will not be alienated. "Of course, if an investor appears, who will make a preliminary payment, after which all the necessary conditions will be created for students, the lyceum will" move "to a new place," Balayan stressed.The deputy minister also noted that in recent years, the number of people willing to study at the lyceum has increased. "This year we expect a very serious competition for admission to the lyceum. We have no problems with the shortfall.
This year there was even a proposal to raise the threshold of requirements for applicants, but the council decided not to do that," Balayan said. It should be noted that the head of the State Property Management Committee Narek Babayan stated that the Monte Melkonyan High School should leave the premises provided, and the building should be alienated due to the high cost of its maintenance (63 million drams annually). The State Property Management Committee considered that the lyceum building was too luxurious for a military lyceum to be located there. However, controversy with the Ministry of Defense, which insisted on maintaining the building behind the Lyceum, arose on this issue.Recall that the building of the lyceum was once built by the head of the State Revenue Committee Gagik Khachatryan as a training center for the Ministry of Finance. For the construction of the building, 60 billion drams were allocated from the state budget. Subsequently, after the hype, the building was decided to be transferred to the Ministry of Defense under the military lyceum Monte Melkonyan.