ArmInfo. According to the draft law amended by the Cabinet of Ministers on amending the Law on the Structure of the Government, 12 out of 17 ministries will be left. According to the document, the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Science will be merged into one single ministry.
The next decision is to abolish the Ministry of Diaspora; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will perform its functions.
The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies will be renamed the Ministry of High Technologies and the MIC.
The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources will be merged with the Ministry of Territorial Administration. The Ministry of Agriculture will be part of the Ministry of Economic Development.
To note, this project has already managed to receive criticism from expert and social and political circles. Some argue that in ongoing there is no logic to reform, others point to the social aspect of the issue, with given the fact that several thousand employees of the state apparatus will reduce.
In response to this, Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted that he was talking about optimizing the public sector even before the elections, and with this in mind, the people gave him a vote of confidence to carry out the planned reforms.