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.

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