Armenia’s 2013 State Budget Copied From Last Year’s One – Paper

ARMENIA’S 2013 STATE BUDGET COPIED FROM LAST YEAR’S ONE – PAPER

PanARMENIAN.Net
October 5, 2012 – 15:43 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – According to Haykakan Zhamanak daily, the majority
of points in 2013 state budget were copied from the one from last year.

However, the paper said, some changes were made, specifically in the
foreign policy section.

“Normalization of Turkish-Armenian ties without preconditions” was
described as a priority in the 2012 state budget agenda. However,
the clause was absent in the 2013 state budget. When asked for
explanations, parliament vice speaker Shavarsh Kocharyan expressed
surprise, noting that regardless of the fact that the clause was
struck out the issue still remains a priority,” the paper said.

A number of questions come to mind here: why didn’t a priority clause
make it to the state budget and why is the vice speaker unaware of
the fact, it added.