LEVON BARSEGHYAN: “THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD FIND A SOLUTION TO RETURN MINAS’S WALL-PAINTINGS TO ITS REAL OWNERS”
Noyan Tapan
20.06.2011
(Noyan Tapan – 20.06.2011) These authorities, especially RA Ministry of
Culture, lead immoral, outrageous policy of taking Minas Avetisyan’s
wall-paintings, pretending that they want to save them. On June 20,
during the press conference the president of the board of Journalists
“Asparez” club Levon Barseghyan announced this.
In his words, Hasmik Poghosyan’s announcement that she didn’t receive
any note from Gyumri municipality about the readiness of restoring
Minas’s wall-paintings there isn’t true. L.Barseghyan presented the
copies of those documents that proved the opposite. Levon Barseghyan
said that they would make efforts for the government to change its
decision and those 4 wall-paintings to be returned to Gyumri. For that
purpose signature collecting has already been held. “The government
should find a solution to return Minas’s wall-paintings to the real
owners,” said Levon Barseghyan.
The president of “Shirak Centre”NGO Vahan Tumasyan thinks that the
authorities keep Minas’s wall-paintings for a good day, for finding
a good client. According to him, before the elections it will give
harm to Armenian Republican Party and RA president. “If they think
about Minas’s wall-paintings so much, then they can restore and leave
them in Gymri. Those wall-paintings were made by people in Gymri,
belong to them and for 23 years people in Gyumri have preserved them,”
underlined Vahan Tumasyan.