Employees of Armenia’s culture and diaspora ministries declare strike against optimization - UPDATED

Armenia’s Culture and Diaspora ministries’ employees have declared strike against optimization, according to aysor.am.

The Armenian government has decided to cut the number of ministries from 17 to 11.

According to the government’s decision from early 2019 the ministries of culture and sports and youth affairs will be united with the Ministry of Education and Science, Diaspora Ministry will be closed.

Employees of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia are starting a labor strike, according to news.am. 

They are demonstrating outside the ministry building and protesting the government decision on dissolving the Ministry of Culture and joining part of it to the Ministry of Education and Science and the other part—to the Ministry of Urban Development.

The demonstrators noted that if there are too many ministries in Armenia, let them study and try to resolve this problem, but this has nothing to do with the main functions of the Ministry of Culture.

As a result of reorganization of the Armenian government structure, the number of ministries is expected to be reduced from 17 to 12.

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