While more than three months have passed since Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan announced that Yerevan’s Matenadaran (the Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) will temporarily house endangered Palestinian cultural artifacts, the ministry remains in the dark as to when this will happen.

Kostanyan made the announcement during a July 29 speech at a at the UN Headquarters in New York at a forum on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Hetq has again sent a letter to the foreign ministry for clarification, and the ministry, yet again, gave a vague response.

The ministry claims that the project is in the approval stage, and it will be possible to answer questions about the project only its final stage.

When that will be is anyone’s guess.

Even the Matenadaran has no clue about the project.

The institute’s PR department, responding to a Hetq inquiry, noted that it still has no official information about which manuscripts Kostanyan was referring to, where they will be brought from, and when the process will begin.

Hetq also sent inquiries to the Palestinian Ministry of Culture and the Armenian Prime Minister's Office to ascertain the details of the initiative but did not receive a response.

See; Nothing Official Yet on Bringing Palestinian Manuscripts to Armenia for Safekeeping