The budget of the Prime Minister’s Office will decrease by 34.5 percent. Minister of Finance – 2024-08-03 17:59:43

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2024-08-03 17:59:43

According to the draft law on the state budget of 2022, the RA President’s Office plans to implement one program, which includes two measures. the proposed funding amounts to 1 billion 602.5 million drams, the approved budget for 2021 provided for 1 billion 601.2 million drams, RA Minister of Finance Tigran Khachatryan announced during the joint session of the NA Standing Committees on State-Legal and Financial Credit and Budgetary Issues.

“The funding is almost the same as it was planned for 2021,” the minister informed.

According to Khachatryan, the amount of expenses provided by the 2022 state budget of the National Assembly should finance one program, which includes five measures. The amount of financing according to the project is 5 billion 992 million drams, compared to 6 billion 90 million drams in the approved budget of 2021.

“The budget is almost unchanged,” said the minister.

The Prime Minister’s staff will implement 11 programs in 2022, two of which are related to the diaspora. 45 events are included in 11 programs.

“Here we have 11 programs that will finance 19 billion 675 million drams in the 2022 state budget, compared to 30 billion 24 million drams in the approved budget for 2021,” the minister said.

He noted that there is a reduction of 34.5%.

“It is also partially due to the fact that many programs and measures included in them, which were implemented by the Prime Minister’s office last year, should be implemented by other departments in 2022, in particular by the Ministry of Education and Training,” said Khachatryan.

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