DISPROPORTIONATE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIAN REGIONS HINDRANCE TO SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRY
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
June 26 2007
YEREVAN, June 26. /ARKA/. Disproportionate development of the
Armenian regions is a hindrance to socioeconomic development of the
country, Armenian Prime-Minister Serge Sargsian said in presenting
the government action program for 2008-2012 in the National Assembly
of the country.
He stressed the priority of proportionate development of the regions.
"Yerevan is overloaded with cultural, medical, industrial and financial
institutions – to the detriment of itself and at the expense of
other regions," Sargsian said. According to him, the government is
to discuss taking certain functions out of Yerevan.
According to him, the important step is to improve the system of
territorial administration aimed at increasing the responsibility of
local governments. The Prime Minister also pointed out the necessity
to increase the budgets of local government bodies in Armenia.