ARMENIAN PREMIER: SERIOUS PROBLEMS REGISTERED WHEN IMPLEMENTING THE BUDGETARY EXPENSES 2008

ArmInfo
2009-02-26 12:30:00

ArmInfo. Investigations of the Audit Chamber of Armenian National
Assembly showed that serious problems have been disclosed in the matter
of ensuring effectiveness of the budgetary expenses 2008, Armenian
Prime Minister, Tigran Sarkisyan, said in the government today. The
premier discussed the problem of fulfillment of the expenditure
budget with chairman of Audit Chamber of the parliament. He said
that the Audit Chamber will help the government to hold audit in
the spheres where there are high risks of ineffective using of the
budgetary funds. "We have serious reserves, and the expenses may be
more effective. If high risks are preserved in these spheres even after
holding if audit, these expenses simply should not be implemented. In
such a way we shall be able to get serious savings in the budget 2009",
– Sarkisyan said.

He charged all the ministries and departments to submit expenditure
reports to the Audit Chamber over a week. "If over a week the Audit
Chamber does not get reply, we shall be forces to appeal to other
methods", – Sarkisyan said.