LEVON MKRTCHIAN: MAKING EDUCATION SYSTEM PARTY IS MORTAL FOR EDUCATION
Noyan Tapan
Apr 23 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 23, NOYAN TAPAN. According to characterization of
ARF member, RA Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchian,
interest is nocited among the people during the propaganda mission
preceding the National Assembly elections to take place in Armenia
on May 12: there is no despair among the public like it was during
the previous elections. "However, task number one of the propaganda
mission today is the issue to take the people to the elections,
L. Mkrtchian mentioned, who also stated that, for example, only 35
thousand of the 90 thousand voters living in the center of Yerevan
participated in the previous elections.
Levon Mkrtchian considers explosions and shots taking place during the
propaganda mission as a normal phenomanon. In his words, the criminal
element always uses the pre-electoral period for "settling accounts:"
"The criminogen situation always strains during that period, and
clashes take place among these or those forces," L. Mkrtchian said.
Emphasizing that making the education system party is mortal for the
education, L. Mkrtchian assured that the ARF has never made the sphere
employees become party members and has not put pressure on them for
joining other parties."