ArmInfo. Reducing the state apparatus is not an attempt to replenish the budget. The Minister of Finance Atom Janjughazyan stated this in an interview with journalists in the Armenian parliament.
According to him, in this issue, the main factor is performance of employees, which is why the Ministry of Finance has reduced several structures in its composition. The minister recalled that the optimization process began under the government of Karen Karapetyan and is continuing now. "In 2018, we reduced the staff of civil servants by 15-20%, but our work did not suffer from this," the minister added, stressing that the goal of optimization is to increase the efficiency of the state apparatus, and not to save money.