IN 2008 RA MINISTRY OF DIASPORA ECONOMIZES 20% RESOURCES PROVIDED FROM STATE BUDGET

Noyan Tapan
June 3, 2009

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2008 the RA Ministry of Diaspora
spent 80m of 101m drams allocated to it. Minister of Diaspora Hranush
Hakobian reported on June 2, at the joint sitting of the RA NA
Standing Committees.

According to her, the economy was done due to Ministry staff’s being
incomplete yet.

The Minister said that property, equipment and several cars were
bought for the newly created Ministry within the three months of the
previous year, on which 50m drams were spent. The Ministry organized
a conference in late December dedicated to repatriation problems in
1946-48. As to the All-Armenian Conference of Architects, the 1.5m
drams spent on it was envisaged by the current year’s budget.

In response to deputy Naira Zohrabian’s question on the fate of the
Yaraj newspaper of Paris H. Hakobian said that she personally visited
newspaper’s editorial office and talked to the editor-in-chief,
who is also newspaper’s owner. The latter on no condition agreed to
continue publishing the newspaper, which was stopped from June 1.