YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY OUT OF POLITICAL ACITIVITIES

Panorama.am
18:51 01/03/2007

Aram Simonyan, rector of Yerevan State University (YSU) said today
YSU is out of political activities.

However, the university management does not stop the faculty and
students to engage in politics out of the institution. "We have
students who are supported of Armenian Republican Party (HHK),
Prosperous Armenia, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnakcutiun),"
Simonyan said.

The rector of the institution said it is prohibited to engage in
political activities within the building of the university. "The
institution belongs to people. We are a state institution and the
state interest is primary for us," he said.