Samvel Karapetyan,stuck to his guns and confirmed that Catholicos Garegin II said - I have nothing to do with monasteries up in the mountains.
Activists remind the public that only a few days ago Etchmiadzin Info Coordinator Vahram Melikyan stated that the church doesn't have the funds needed to renovate Sanahin.
PM Sargsyan noted that the issue had recently been raised by certain civic organizations and that the press had given extensive coverage to the matter.
The Armenian government plans to allocate 6 million AMD to clean the growth of grass and shrubbery from the monastery using a physical-chemical method.
The group claims that Karapetyan, in an interview with the Arm Info news website, stated that Catholicos Garegin II responded by saying – I have nothing to do with monasteries or churches up in the mountains.
In April, 2010, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan toured Lori Marz and his first stop was at Sanahin.