431 CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS STILL VACANT

Armenpress
Jun 22 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 22, ARMENPRESS: Manvel Badalian, the chief of the Civil
Service Council, told a news conference yesterday that out of overall
7,100 positions in the civil service 431 were still vacant.

He said though competitions had been held to fill in these vacancies,
no winners were declared as none met the requirements.

"We need skilled accountants, lawyers, financiers to fill in these
expositions, but they all are in the private sector," Badalian said.

He said 330 officials, many holding rather high positions in the
presidential administration, Yerevan municipality and regions, were
sacked because of failing to certify. He said another 200 were sacked
for possessing faked documents. Overall, he said, since the inception
of the Civil Service Council, 3,493 competitions were held for 22,000
applicants and only 6,592 were recognized winners.