Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan presides over cabinet meeting Thursday
Disagreements continue between Economy Minister and Prime Minister who also argues with Education Minister.
YEREVAN—Newly-appointed prime minister of Armenia. Karen Karapetyan has proposed structural changes to the ministries. The new proposal was introduced Thursday by the government’s chief of staff minister Davit Harutunyan, who, among other changes noted that the ministry of urban development would be dissolved.
Harutunyan said a new committee of Architecture and Cultural Property Preservation will be formed to address some of the responsibilities of the now defunct ministry.
Harutunyan also said that the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources would be renamed to Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources, while the Ministry of Transport and Communication was renamed to Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies.
The ministry that would be affected the most by this reorganization will the Ministry of Economy, which has been renamed Ministry of Support to Investments and Enterprises. Under the restructuring development of information technology and the department of tourism would be extracted from the ministry’s purview and assigned to other ministries or committees.
The acting Minister of Economy, Artsvik Minasyan, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, was one of two ministers that challenged this proposal, which requires parliamentary approval before it goes into effect.
“We want to make it clear to entrepreneurs and investors that there is an agency to which they can present their grievances, demands, desires, objections and advice, and that structure will look after them to ensure that they face no obstacles,â€
