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On June 12, the joint sitting of the RA National Assembly Standing Committees on State and Legal Affairs and on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs held and non-completed on June 9 continued, which moderated Vladimir Vardanyan and Mane Tandilyan. The budgetary allocations, expenditure and non-financial indices of the RA Prime Minister’s Staff for 2019 were debated.

The RA Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Eduard Aghajanyan informed that 11 programmes and 49 events were approved by the state budget of the financial year for the Prime Minister’s Staff. As a result of dissolution of the Ministry of Diaspora, 2 programmes and 7 events were moved to the Prime Minister’s Staff. During 2019, the Prime Minister’s Staff implemented 10 programmes and 53 events.

The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff noted that after the debates the implementation of the programmes Humanitarian Aid Programmes and Studies in Public Opinion was not found expedient.

In 2019 the functions related to the presentation of the RA interests and protection worked out by the RA representative’s Office in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in accordance with the judgments and decisions by the ECHR being implemented on the basis of the RA Government decisions and in the international judicial instances, as well as the implementation of the functions of providing the activities of the 6 inspectorates were also added to the functions of the RA Prime Minister’s Staff.

The MPs’ questions related to the reforms of the police system, the execution of the state sector modernization programme, the allocations for supporting the parties, the low execution of the civil servants’ training, the development programmes of the mining branches, the reforms of the public sector, the legislative solutions regulating the mass media and other problems, and Eduard Aghajanyan gave clarifications to them.