YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Issues related to financing of state, local government and judicial bodies of the report on execution of the RA Law on the 2006 RA State Budget were discussed at the September 4 joint sitting of the RA National Assembly standing committees. According to the governmental report, expenditures on state sevices of general character made 49.9 bln drams (about 120 mln USD), ensuring a 92.9% execution of the program. The deviation from the program is mainly explained by the low execution indices of credit and grant programs implemented with foreign assistance. The expenditures of the legislative body and the state governance expenditures amounted to over 9.9 bln drams in the period under review or 98.5% of envisaged expenditures. These expenditures grew by 27.5% on 2005, which is mainly conditioned by an increase in expenditures on salaries, as well as on purchase of property, services and equipment. 330 mln drams was allocated for construction of a new NA subsidiary building as an expenditure on construction of administrative objects. 62 mln drams additionally allocated from the government's 2006 reserve fund was spent for the same purpose. 1.1 bln drams allocated for major repairs of administrative objects was spent on major repairs of the administrative buildings of the presidential staff, the government's subsidiary buildings, the government's reception house, and the administrative buildings of the Armavir and Vayots Dzor regional administrations. According to the head of the NA staff Hayk Kotanian, the expenditures on maintenance of the NA were envisaged in the amount of 2.1 bln drams. The fulfilment index made 99.99%. About 81 mln drams of this sum was allocated for expenses related to membership of international parliamentary organizations.

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