Zhoghovurd: Armenian FM’s Shanghai Trips Costs Budget $3.5m

ZHOGHOVURD: ARMENIAN FM’S SHANGHAI TRIPS COSTS BUDGET $3.5M

09:25 * 09.04.15

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian’s recent visit to Shanghai
has cost the State Budget an equivalent of over $3,500, the paper
has learned.

But the trip would not have been so expensive had Nalbandian chosen
a flight by Econom Class, where the paper says the price for one air
ticket is slightly above $1,700 (850,000 Drams).

“So those people [top government officials] do all their best to day
by day impoverish Armenia and its population in return for a bonus
to travel exclusively by business class,” the paper says, commenting
on the report.