Armenian foundation to promote cultural development

Prominent Armenian cultural figures have launched a foundation-council that will help solve existing problems in the country’s cultural life, the council’s chairperson, composer Robert Amirkhanyan told a press conference.

The foundation’s mission is also to contribute to the preservation and development of cultural life in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as ensuring the equal cultural development in the capital Yerevan and provinces.

Amirkhanyan also said that the founder of the foundation-council is Gagik Tsarukyan, Head of the Prosperous Armenian party.

“We are now talking about a baby that wants to be born and live a healthy life,” said he, adding that they are concerned over how Armenians spend their evening time – one of the reasons they decided to launch this foundation-council.

The council consists of eleven members, among them such figures as Jivan Gasparyan, Ara Khzmalyan, Alexander Grigoryan, Zhirayr Altunyan and others.

Asked whether the initiation of the council means that the Ministry of Culture somehow fails in its mission he Amirkhanyan said: “Yes, somehow it does mean so … The budget of the Ministry of Culture is not insufficient, however, some of the most serious programs are left out of attention.”