YEREVAN. – A total of 13 billion and 589 million drams (about US$28,558,000) will be allocated from the 2017 State Budget for the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia.

The First Deputy Minister of Finance, Atom Janjughazyan, noted the aforesaid at Thursday’s National Assembly respective committees’ hearings on the draft state budget for next year.

In his words, the MFA is carrying out ten budgetary programs.