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On April 10, the RA NA Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs Gagik Minasyan met with the representatives of The Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) Chris Levick, Andrew Walker, Marco Sosic and the Advisor of the programme Public Financial Management in the South Caucasus of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation) Hovhannes Margaryants. The RA NA deputies Samvel Nikoyan and Mane Tandilyan also took part in the meeting.

Issues on strategy elaboration of the RA NA Budget Office professional capacity building were discussed. The guests have noted that the goal of the mission is to clarify the beneficiaries' evaluation and expectations on the activities of the Budget Office.

Gagik Minasyan has stated that the Budget Office, as in any country, including Armenia, is a huge weapon for implementing budgetary oversight. In the Committee Chair's word, the RA NA Budget Office has rather honest capabilities with little financing and a staff with few members. The Office mainly presents certificates on the problems relating to the budget and the economic development.

The international expert Chris Levick noted that he had received positive assessments about the works of the Budget Office.

The specialists of The Westminster Foundation for Democracy emphasized the necessity of the rise of the efficiency of the work being implemented with the RA NA Budget Office and the Committees within the framework of the cooperation with the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation.