RA NA Head of Staff: Armenian Parliament Should Become More Open and  Transparent to the Public of the Country

ArmInfo. The parliament of Armenia should become more open and transparent to the public of the country. Tigran Galstyan, the head of the National Assembly's  apparatus and Secretary General of the National Assembly, said this  at a hearing in parliamentary commissions on the draft state budget  of 2020 on October 30.

According to him, in order to achieve this goal, there will be a need  to carry out a number of scientific, educational and informational  events in 2020, and for this we need sufficient financial resources.   Meanwhile, the application of the NA apparatus for 6.408 billion  drams was reduced to 6.095 billion drams. In 2020, the Parliament's  apparatus will focus on five key tasks - ensuring legislative  activity of the National Assembly and representation expenses - over  6 billion drams, paying contributions to international parliamentary  organizations - 183 million drams, retraining of civil servants - 1.2  billion drams, improving technical equipment of the National Assembly  - 222 mln drams, repair work - over 70 mln drams. Over 90% of all  budgetary allocations will be directed to ensure legislative activity  of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. The head of  staff stressed that for the first time in the past few years, it is  planned to carry out major repairs of all buildings and structures of  the parliament. It was envisaged, in particular, to replace the  electric cables installed back in 1960-1965, which are morally and  physically obsolete. Their further use may cause fires. Meanwhile,  the appropriations for solving this problem have been removed from  the initial application of the RA National Assembly. Also, the volume  of financing of the salary fund was reduced by 133 million drams,  which can lead to problems when attracting highly qualified  specialists.  The head of the apparatus expressed hope that following  the results of the discussions, the application of the parliament  apparatus would be fully satisfied.