ArmInfo. Having considered the draft law on amending and supplementing the law on the "Structure and Functioning of the Government," the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Body expresses deep concern about a number of proposed amendments.The ARFD report received by ArmInfo, in particular, states: "The Government's initiative to unite ministries, reorganize and dissolve a number of government bodies without developing a concept, proper justification and public discussion does not stand up to criticism.
Such a controversial decision is fraught with serious consequences."Without denying the need to improve the effectiveness of the public administration system through optimization, the party simultaneously considers unacceptable any hasty and hasty actions. Particularly unacceptable for ARF is that the feasibility of the existence of the Ministry of Diaspora and the Ministry of Culture as separate state bodies is questioned."It would seem that the Government's goal of raising relations with the diaspora to a new level and organizing a major repatriation should have led to the adoption of new conceptual approaches. However, instead of reassessing the activities of the Ministry of Diaspora, it was decided to dissolve the Ministry without wide, comprehensive public and expert discussion. the closure of the Ministry of Diaspora, partially covering the gap of the lack of an all-Armenian organization, will certainly find its negative reaction from our compatriots for rubles pulp "- said in a statement.
According to the authors of the statement, regardless of whether the aforementioned Ministry succeeded in accomplishing the tasks, it "was intended to become not only the main link between the state and Armenians living abroad, but also a manifestation of the ideological approach to perceiving Armenians as ONE and WHOLE." "Strengthening the diaspora is a strategically important issue and one of the key guarantees of security and progress of the motherland," they noted.The ARF Supreme Body Dashnaktsutyun calls for a review of the draft law "On the Structure and Functioning of the Government" and, in particular, to return the true mission of the Ministry of Diaspora on the basis of a revised and reformed agenda. It should be noted that employees of the disbanded ministries of culture and the Diaspora held a protest rally the day before, demanding that the government not liquidate these departments. Meanwhile, the Armenian government plans to liquidate the Ministry of Culture, and one part of its departments to merge with the Ministry of Education and Science, the other – with the City Planning Committee. What will happen to the functions of the Mindiaspore is not yet known, but as the other day noted.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in the functions of almost all Armenian ministries there is a component of working with the Diaspora. As pointed out the other day. head of the government, as a result of reforming the structure of the Government in Armenia, instead of 17 ministries,12. Note that months earlier one of Pashinyan's advisers announced the government's intention to reduce about 100 thousand public sector employees, of about 240 thousand employees employed in the state apparatus.