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ARFD MP: DANGEROUS TENDENCIES OBSERVED WITH RESPECT TO YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE
arminfo
Tuesday, October 4, 21:38
Dangerous tendencies have been observed recently with respect to the
Yerevan Physics Institute, Vahan Hovhannisyan, an MP representing
ARFD party, said in the parliament on Tuesday.
He said that the Government's decision to reorganize the institute
into a fund does not seem to be very effective. "The decision
was passed with no consent from the institute's staff and with no
serious arguments from the Government," the MP said. He noted that
the institute is facing a serious danger. "This institute is one of
the pillars of our national science. It carries out almost 28% of all
scientific research in the country and our nuclear power plant was
built exactly because we had such an institute," Hovhannisyan said,
urging the parliament to organize special hearings.
To remind, the employees of the National Scientific Laboratory after
Alikhanyan (Yerevan Physics Institute) are against the Government's
decision to reorganize the institute into a fund and to create a
Nuclear Medicine Centre on its basis to fight oncological diseases.
During a press-conference on Sept 30 Director of Yerevan Physics
Institute, Hamlet Lazarian said that all the decisions on the issue
were adopted with no regard for the viewpoints of the institute's
staff.
For his part, an employee of the Physics Institute, Dr. Ruben
Lazarian added that the Yerevan Physics Institute is one of the
strongest scientific institutes of Armenia. He said all over the
world such institutes are fully financed from the budget, but after
reorganization we shall turn into a commercial structure and will
not be a state scientific center any more.
On 1 September 2011 the Armenian government adopted a decision to
reorganize the Yerevan Physics Institute into a fund. The decision
on establishment of a Nuclear Medicine Center on the basis of the
Yerevan Physics Institute was adopted by the Armenian government on
19 February 2009.
arminfo
Tuesday, October 4, 21:38
Dangerous tendencies have been observed recently with respect to the
Yerevan Physics Institute, Vahan Hovhannisyan, an MP representing
ARFD party, said in the parliament on Tuesday.
He said that the Government's decision to reorganize the institute
into a fund does not seem to be very effective. "The decision
was passed with no consent from the institute's staff and with no
serious arguments from the Government," the MP said. He noted that
the institute is facing a serious danger. "This institute is one of
the pillars of our national science. It carries out almost 28% of all
scientific research in the country and our nuclear power plant was
built exactly because we had such an institute," Hovhannisyan said,
urging the parliament to organize special hearings.
To remind, the employees of the National Scientific Laboratory after
Alikhanyan (Yerevan Physics Institute) are against the Government's
decision to reorganize the institute into a fund and to create a
Nuclear Medicine Centre on its basis to fight oncological diseases.
During a press-conference on Sept 30 Director of Yerevan Physics
Institute, Hamlet Lazarian said that all the decisions on the issue
were adopted with no regard for the viewpoints of the institute's
staff.
For his part, an employee of the Physics Institute, Dr. Ruben
Lazarian added that the Yerevan Physics Institute is one of the
strongest scientific institutes of Armenia. He said all over the
world such institutes are fully financed from the budget, but after
reorganization we shall turn into a commercial structure and will
not be a state scientific center any more.
On 1 September 2011 the Armenian government adopted a decision to
reorganize the Yerevan Physics Institute into a fund. The decision
on establishment of a Nuclear Medicine Center on the basis of the
Yerevan Physics Institute was adopted by the Armenian government on
19 February 2009.