2006 STATE BUDGETARY EXPENDITURES ON STATE SERVICES OF GENERAL CHARACTER MAKE 49.9 BLN DRAMS

Noyan Tapan
Sep 4, 2007

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Issues related to financing
of state, local government and judicial bodies of the report on
execution of the RA Law on the 2006 RA State Budget were discussed at
the September 4 joint sitting of the RA National Assembly standing
committees. According to the governmental report, expenditures on
state sevices of general character made 49.9 bln drams (about 120
mln USD), ensuring a 92.9% execution of the program. The deviation
from the program is mainly explained by the low execution indices of
credit and grant programs implemented with foreign assistance.

The expenditures of the legislative body and the state governance
expenditures amounted to over 9.9 bln drams in the period under review
or 98.5% of envisaged expenditures. These expenditures grew by 27.5%
on 2005, which is mainly conditioned by an increase in expenditures on
salaries, as well as on purchase of property, services and equipment.

330 mln drams was allocated for construction of a new NA subsidiary
building as an expenditure on construction of administrative
objects. 62 mln drams additionally allocated from the government’s 2006
reserve fund was spent for the same purpose. 1.1 bln drams allocated
for major repairs of administrative objects was spent on major
repairs of the administrative buildings of the presidential staff,
the government’s subsidiary buildings, the government’s reception
house, and the administrative buildings of the Armavir and Vayots
Dzor regional administrations.

According to the head of the NA staff Hayk Kotanian, the expenditures
on maintenance of the NA were envisaged in the amount of 2.1 bln
drams. The fulfilment index made 99.99%. About 81 mln drams of this
sum was allocated for expenses related to membership of international
parliamentary organizations.