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CLAMOUR ABOUT THE MONUMENT

Culture

“I’m embarrassed” . This is the reaction of MP Sergey Israelyan to Yerevan Mayor Robert Nazaryan’s statement - “All we build is for Yerevan townsfolk” . The question is about the monument to Arno Babajanyan, having raised clamour recently.

Today Mayor Robert Nazaryan invited the intelligentsia to hold a discussion to find out the conflicting standpoints, to find any solution to them and not to look for those guilty. The Mayor said he appraises highly author David Bejanyan and doesn’t understand why the monument is criticised. “If the monument were created by a foreigner and placed in Vienna or Paris, it would certainly be esteemed . But since the author of the monument is not a foreigner, it is ctiticised. The monument has been built for 4 months but no one has been interested in it except Edvard Mirzoyan”,- the Mayor stated.

Art workers are cautious with their points of view. E. g., animated cartoon artist Robert Sahakyants thinks Government is to decide to leave the monument stand or not . Some of art workers didn’t want to “criticise” the author since he is their friend, others suggested to create the second one.

As a result, Mayor gave a task to Chief Architect Narek Sargsyan to set up a new council to solve the problem.