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Hasmik Poghosyan: “I want to digest”

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Minister of Culture doesn’t want to express her opinion on new statues of Yerevan, “I want to digest; we will speak about them later.” The Minister doesn’t recall a case when the statue was approved by the society at once, “It is a creation in stone, it has some difficulties for perception and naturally we cannot immediately speak about positive and negative sides of a statue.” During the time people don’t get used to, but begin to understand the sculpture, says Hasmik Poghosyan, bringing her own example. She started to like one of the statues in Yerevan over time, “For example, I like the statue of Arno Babajanyan, in the past I could not say the same, now I can say I like it.” Hasmik Poghosyan doesn’t deny that there are statues in Yerevan, which still haven’t been approved. Though, she doesn’t want to name them, “I will not list as it is meaningless to say and offend the relatives, but there are such statues, which we still haven’t got used to.” The Minister doesn’t agree that the money intended for statues should be directed to army building, “Everything has its place, we are a developing country, we cannot stay behind.” Today Hasmik Poghosyan has been taking part in the ceremony of awarding title of the YSU Doctor to Spanish writer Gonzalo Guarch. Guarch is the author of three books, which tell about the Armenian Genocide. His works have been of great importance in the process of the Armenian Genocide recognition.