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ARMENIAN OPPOSITION MPS CONCERNED OVER 2014 DRAFT BUDGET
16:53 ~U 14.11.13
Armenia's parliamentary opposition has voiced its concerns over the
draft state budget proposed for next year.
Speaking at a National Assembly debate on Wednesday, Hrant Bagratyan of
the opposition Armenian National Congress said the clause on budgetary
revenues was almost missing from the document.
"The whole budget contains only six lines about revenues. If there is
any other line, come and say it. You [the authorities] are to blame
for that because that makes the budget a crippled tool. Where do you
see anything about budgetary revenues?" he asked.
Responding to his remark, the chairman of the NA Standing Committee on
Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs expressed his disagreement. "I
haven't found anything problematic about the [proposed] law. If
you have any problems, I am ready to discuss them with you," Gagik
Minasyan said.
Commenting on the bill, the opposition MP Alexander Arzumanyan noted
the document had been drafted in completely different political
circumstances. "When it was drafted, the decision on the [Eurasian]
Customs Union membership had not been made yet; hence the data
concerning revenues had not been taken into account. By joining the
Customs Union, we will no longer be able to get what we want to,"
he said.
Artsvik Minasyan of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) later asked Koryun Nahapetyan,
a ruling Republican Party lawmaker responsible for the Defense
Ministry's budgetary expenditures, whether there are any plans or
possibilities for ensuring women's enlistment in the military.
Nahapetyan, who heads the NA Standing Committee on European
Integration, said that the law in effect does not offer any
opportunities for involve women, as well as the compatriots from the
Diaspora, in the army service. But he promised to address the issue
in the near future.
"I think we will also address the new methods of [army] enrichment.
There have been debates in different formats, as well as a working
meeting devoted particularly to the Diaspora-Armenians' enlistment
issue, so I believe there will be new approaches," he answered.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian
16:53 ~U 14.11.13
Armenia's parliamentary opposition has voiced its concerns over the
draft state budget proposed for next year.
Speaking at a National Assembly debate on Wednesday, Hrant Bagratyan of
the opposition Armenian National Congress said the clause on budgetary
revenues was almost missing from the document.
"The whole budget contains only six lines about revenues. If there is
any other line, come and say it. You [the authorities] are to blame
for that because that makes the budget a crippled tool. Where do you
see anything about budgetary revenues?" he asked.
Responding to his remark, the chairman of the NA Standing Committee on
Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs expressed his disagreement. "I
haven't found anything problematic about the [proposed] law. If
you have any problems, I am ready to discuss them with you," Gagik
Minasyan said.
Commenting on the bill, the opposition MP Alexander Arzumanyan noted
the document had been drafted in completely different political
circumstances. "When it was drafted, the decision on the [Eurasian]
Customs Union membership had not been made yet; hence the data
concerning revenues had not been taken into account. By joining the
Customs Union, we will no longer be able to get what we want to,"
he said.
Artsvik Minasyan of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) later asked Koryun Nahapetyan,
a ruling Republican Party lawmaker responsible for the Defense
Ministry's budgetary expenditures, whether there are any plans or
possibilities for ensuring women's enlistment in the military.
Nahapetyan, who heads the NA Standing Committee on European
Integration, said that the law in effect does not offer any
opportunities for involve women, as well as the compatriots from the
Diaspora, in the army service. But he promised to address the issue
in the near future.
"I think we will also address the new methods of [army] enrichment.
There have been debates in different formats, as well as a working
meeting devoted particularly to the Diaspora-Armenians' enlistment
issue, so I believe there will be new approaches," he answered.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian