Health Minister asked abouthis 'eight' advisors
The newly appointed Minister of Health [Levon Altunyan] answered on Friday journalists’ questions concerning the activity of the agency he heads. According to the Ministry’s website, Minister Altunyan has eight advisors. Journalists observed that the minister is speaking about inefficient expenditures and necessary cuts in the sector whereas he keeps eight advisors. “I shall make calculations today, and we shall speak about it at the next meeting.” The minister joked saying that there are 3 million advisors in Armenia and if he calculates and sees that he really has eight advisors he will turn to them for advice. Mr. Alyunyan added that he can keep two advisors by law and only two of them actually receive salaries. “If there are eight of them, as you say, then the other six work on a voluntary basis,” the minister said. When asked what he was going to do with the wife of the former Defense Minister, Ruzanna Khachatryan, who, the journalists said, does not to want to work with the new minister, Levon Altunyan said, “I am sorry about it.” In reply to the question whether he was going to sack her from her job, the minister said, “I shall sign her resignation letter if she submits it.” Details here
