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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday called for a governmental supervision mechanism to be in place to prevent the improper use of historic-cultural monuments.
He made the remarks at a joint meeting of parliamentary committees on the budget report.
“The government ought to set a strong supervision, so that some people don’t make closets out of these historic-cultural monuments, like I’ve said before because that’s an insult to people’s spiritual feelings,” Pashinyan said, referring to his Cabinet meeting speech when he said that many churches in Armenia are littered and look like “closets.”
PM Pashinyan said the monuments are under state care and are designated as public property.
Pashinyan added that cultural life has intensified in the country in the past few years, in part due to the new funding model that enables a number of cultural institutions to generate their own revenue.
“Clearly these formulas are working, because we’ve created eagerness, so that our cultural institutions, by doing what they love to do, can generate revenue for themselves. The more generated revenue, the more government support,” he said.
