Karabakh’s parliament passes 2005 budget

Artsakh State TV, Stepanakert
27 Dec 04

Presenter over video of National Assembly discussions On 27 December
the NKR Nagornyy Karabakh Republic National Assembly held its last
plenary session in 2004. The main issue on the agenda was the 2005 NKR
state budget. The discussions started with the speech of the NKR
finance minister, Spartak Tevosyan. He presented the final version of
the document. After the speech of the NKR finance minister, the heads
of the Democratic Union Zham and Dashnaktsutyun factions of parliament
also presented their views about the budget. The NKR National
Assembly’s standing commission on finance and budgetary issues gave a
positive opinion about the budget. In the end the parliament adopted
the 2005 state budget.

At the end of the plenary session the chairman of the NKR National
Assembly, Oleg Yesayan, summed up the activities of parliament in
2004. In particular he said the following:

Yesayan The ninth session period of the National Assembly has been one
of the most effective rounds in the history of the NKR
parliament. During the ninth session period alone the NKR National
Assembly has adopted 45 laws. For comparison, overall the NKR National
Assembly has adopted 476 laws and the current, third parliament has
adopted 286 laws. Now each of our standing commissions has adopted
more laws than the first National Assembly overall. I do not want to
compare the current parliament with the first one, because the
conditions of the latter’s work were completely different. I just want
to show how important and busy our legislative branch is now.