YEREVAN. – Employees of the Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia are joining the labor strike by the workers at the Ministry of Culture.

They are protesting that their ministries will be dissolved.

A respective demonstration is staged Friday outside the ministries’ building.

Employees of the Ministry of Diaspora noted that the dissolution of their ministry was a wrong decision, and that the respective view of the Armenian diaspora was not considered when making this decision.

As a result of reorganization of the Armenian government structure, the number of ministries is expected to be reduced from 17 to 12.

Armenia Culture Ministry workers starting labor strike