Monday, November 4 2019 21:10

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan defended the initiatives of the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Araik Harutyunyan.  The Prime  Minister of Armenia during a live broadcast on Facebook touched on  the issue of teaching in schools the subject of the history of the  Armenian church.

He stressed that he had recently discussed this  issue with the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II. According to  Pashinyan, the history of the Armenian people is inseparable from the  history of the church. He also emphasized that this issue is of great  importance in the prism of the political vector and the accents of  the authorities.

According to Pashinyan, when the government set itself the task of  being a technological state, the emphasis was also on providing an  appropriate educational base, where attention should be focused on  such subjects as physics, mathematics, computer science. The prime  minister pointed out the importance of creating a common history  without separating the state from the church.

He also touched upon the bill, according to which it is proposed to  exclude from the educational program the Armenian challenge to such  subjects as the Armenian language, the history of the Armenian  people.  According to him, the feasibility of this issue should be  looked at in the prism of international criteria, and see how leading  universities in the United States or England, or France act on this  issue. According to him, this must be done if we want Armenian  universities to be among the leading world universities. He also  touched on the extremely mixed public reaction to the performance of  the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, organized on  Saturday.

The Prime Minister of Armenia expressed bewilderment by the fact that  any other out-of-the-box thinking causes such a public outcry, and it  may come to the point that such people can be considered both  "Satanists" and "enemies of the people." However, according to him,  the new Armenia should be above all this, in the new Armenia people  should think differently, it is necessary to develop and move  forward.