Funds to study Armenian monuments outside the country to be allocated next year
07.11.2009 17:03 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "In 2010 all major cultural programs will be carried
out, despite 27 per cent budget cut this year, or reduction by 355
million AMD," Armenia’s culture minister Hasmik Poghosyan told a
press conference on November 7.
The budget of the ministry of culture in 2010 will amount to AMD 7
billion 953 million, and all the major programs of the ministry will
be carried out, except technical equipment projects for theaters and
concert halls.
Rehabilitation of architectural and historical monuments program will
be reduced by 30 per cent. The minister stressed, it is necessary to
re-assess the strategy of monuments restoration.
In 2010, for the first time funds will be allocated to study Armenian
monuments outside the country.