During the 4-hour long session of the National Academy of Sciences, the majority of the presidential administration was praising the president and begging him not to leave the National Academy of Sciences. Based on the preliminary scenario, it was expected to see Fadey Sargsyan step down from office and the members of the academy had come to the session with the hope of seeing him resign. But things changed around a couple of days ago when academician Hanri Nersisyan held a press conference, where he said that he worries over the fact that the academy will not evaluate all the violations of Fadey Sargsyan after he leaves.
As stated in our previous edition, the director of the scientific library of the NAS and academician Hanri Nersisyan had sent an accusation letter consisting of 13 points to the president of the NAS and the presidential administration. As a result, a special committee was formed on February 15 to check up on those 13 points. The committee was supposed to present its evaluations and come to a conclusion in two weeks time, but it got behind schedule and blames H. Nersisyan for presenting the points during a 10 day period. According to president of the committee Yuri Chilingaryan, the points were baseless and could simply be referred to doubts. The nine member committee studied the allegations of H. Nersisyan for more than a month and wasn’t able to evaluate them. Y. Chilingaryan says that there were some mistakes. For example, Hanri Nersisyan’s allegation that, based on the charter, the academy doesn’t elect reporter/members once every three years like it is supposed to. The committee members decided that although that is considered a violation, however on the other hand, what’s wrong with that? That charter hasn’t been in effect ever since the 1950s and nobody has paid attention to it. Also, the area of the scientific library allotted for use was not 60 square meters as stated in the contract, but rather 12 square meters. This was the renter’s fault, who constructed 60 square meters instead of 12. Who gave the NAS bureau to make decisions based on the financial status of the academy, when the charter doesn’t even state anything about a bureau? It turns out that way back in the 1960s, academician Victor Hambartsumyan had had a bureau and there is nothing wrong with Fadey Sargsyan having a bureau. But what remained a mystery is who gives the bureau the right to make decisions on its own, when what it really should do is serve as a counsel for the president of the NAS. In general, the committee members remembered all the laws that used to function at the academy back in the beginning of the past century and left the charter passed in 2002 aside. Basically, the committee humiliated the president of the NAS even more. The members, who had barely gotten a chance to get acquainted with the committee’s documents and conclusions minutes before the session, approved them and gave a high evaluation. All members approved, besides academicians Hrachya Simonyan and Lenser Aghalovyan.
“Thanks to the committee for its work and registering the events, but why didn’t it find out why and how those events occurred?” they said.
According to H. Nersisyan, if the committee has considered his allegations as absurd and slander, then the slanderer must be held responsible for his actions.
“I think that Mr. Sargsyan has to sue Hanri Nersisyan,” says H. Simonyan. Meanwhile, the other members of the presidential administration are more in favor of lynching H. Nersisyan for suspecting the president, calling the presidential staff as a “group of parasites” and as if this wasn’t enough, refused to participate in the session and only sent his “personal opinion” about the work done by the committee. Someone proposed simply arresting H. Nersisyan. But the members didn’t even get a chance to get acquainted with the personal opinion sent from H. Nersisyan. They demanded that the NAS president fire the worker that doesn’t obey the laws, disciplining the dissident academician and called Nersisyan an abnormal psychic old man, maniac, a psychiatric patient, etc. Each member raised Fadey Sargysan on the pedestal and praised him. Amongst all this going on, Fadey Sargsyan stood proud and said:
“I don’t regret appointing Hanri Nersisyan as director of the scientific library because I’ve noticed how diligently he has worked even during the dark years of Armenia”…or… “Why should I fire him if I don’t have any reason?” and finally, Fadey Sargsyan confessed: “What do you expect me to say when I haven’t even read H. Nersisyan’s personal opinion and objections?”
In a word, Fadey Sargsyan isn’t going anywhere for the time being. He will not sue Hanri Nersisyan because, in his words, “I don’t remember the bad deeds. The academy shouldn’t spend its time with minor issues like this. It has to be involved in science.’
In response to the academicians’ demands, he said: “You tell me not to go. Should I stay so you can lower my reputation and humiliate me…?”