NAMES OF ARFD MINISTERS TO BECOME KNOWN BY END OF WEEK
Y EREVAN, MAY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Though the ARFD regulations does not
prohibit a Bureau member to take some post in the executive power,
nevertheless the ARFD Ministers, realizing that these are incompatible
circumstances, decided to resign. NA deputy Vahan Hovhannisian, a
member of the ARFD Bureau, said at the May 29 press conference. It
should be mentioned that Aghvan Vardanian, David Lokian, and Levon
Mkrtchian are meant. Being elected Bureau members, they resigned their
posts of RA Minister of Labor and Social Issues, Agriculture, and
Education and Science, respectively.
According to him, at present the ARFD Supreme Body is holding
discussions and the new Ministers’ names will become known by the end
of the week. "The Ministers will be selected by the principle of being
pure, clean, young, experienced specialists," V. Hovhannisian said. He
did not exclude, either that not party members can take these
vacancies. "However, our own cadre bank is studied first of all," V.
Hovhannisian mentioned.