ArmInfo. "We have to be able to make a decision: are we following the path of serving narrow, personal, group interests, or, conversely, subordinating them to the interests of the majority.
This is a choice that needs to be made," said Armenian Finance Minister Atom Janjugazyan, commenting on the Facebook social network a working paper in which there is evidence of a reduction of up to 10 thousand public servants.In early March this year. former Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, former Minister of Justice Arpine Hovhannisyan published an official document on her Facebook page - a letter addressed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on behalf of Deputy Prime Minister Mger Grigoryan and Finance Minister Atom Janjugazyan, which refers to the estimated reduction of 10,000 civil servants.
The authors of the document as a justification for mass cuts of state officials cite the following argument: "Even if 10,000 civil servants who do not bring additional product to the country (result, value - red) become unemployed, the Armenian statehood and the entire public will benefit from it. That is, about 3 million Armenian citizens. "According to the minister, the authorities did not intend to ever hide anything. "Consequently, there can be no talk of disclosing secrets. I will say more - it is impossible to do this (massive cuts in civil servants - ed.)
Not publicly, and not transparently," he said.At the same time, as Janzhugazyan pointed out, the document does not indicate specific figures on the proposed reductions, and 10 thousand is a conventional number. "The formulation only concerns the fact that even if we are talking about such a possible outcome, you still need to compare this number with the number of those who can win in this situation when this conditional number suffers.
Moreover, the word "suffer "is taken in brackets. This, in our opinion, cannot concern those who create the product ", - explained the head of the Ministry of Finance.He stressed that this document is not aimed at focusing on the expected reductions, on the contrary, it represents possible processes for optimizing the management of the state apparatus, which were mentioned in the 5-year program of the new government. "We are trying to achieve the best result with the available opportunities. That is, the process is not aimed at reducing the finances, but at achieving the maximum result," said Janjugazyan, urging everyone to rally around this idea, because it implies maximum efficient spending of state budget revenues in our country with such difficulty. "Regarding whether financial authorities are calm about the fact that people can be reduced, the chief financier said: "Of course, we don't take this calmly. We must be able to make a decision: are we following the path of serving narrow, personal, group interests, or, conversely, subordinating them to the interests of the majority. This is a choice that needs to be made. "As the minister pointed out, the state apparatus was blown up to its present size not immediately, but for many years. "As a result, today we have what we have. When we are not talking about any actions, everyone complains about the scale, level and quality of the response of the state administration apparatus, but when it comes to planned measures, complaints begin in this direction. But we have to take I think we made the decision to choose the best one and demand the provision of the best quality public services, otherwise we will come back to what we have, "said Janjugazyan.