ArmInfo.The budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia (including the cost of maintaining the administrative staff) will grow by about 2% in 2022. Minister of Finance of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Khachatryan announced this on November 4 at the preliminary hearings of the draft state budget of the Republic of Armenia at the joint meeting of the standing committees of the parliament.
According to him, the draft state budget for the next year will allocate about 412 million or 2.26% more funds to the foreign ministry than was approved by the law "On the state budget of the Republic of Armenia for 2021" - from 18 billion 240 million drams to 18 billion 653.1 million drams. Funds will be provided for the implementation of 5 programs with 8 activities.
In particular, the expenses for the maintenance of the office will amount to 1 billion 930.6 million drams (76.2% of these funds are the salary fund), the document provides 1 billion 953.4 million drams for the development and implementation of the government's foreign policy. Within the framework of the program of cooperation with international organizations (payments for membership), 4.47% more will be allocated next year - from 2 billion 197 million drams to 2 billion 295.3 million drams (of which about 200 thousand euros of debts accumulated for the previous years). Armenia is a member of 106 organizations and platforms. Expenses for protocol events will amount to 185 million 998 thousand drams.
To recall, according to the draft budget for 2022, state treasury revenues will amount to about 1 trillion 946.2 billion drams, and expenditures - 2 trillion 189.2 billion drams, and the deficit will be at the level of 243 billion drams. Thus, in 2022, the revenues of the state treasury of Armenia, compared with the approved state budget for 2021, will grow by about 437 billion drams, or 28.9%, expenses - by 18.2% or 338 billion drams.
