YEREVAN. - The Center for Strategic Initiatives doesn’t require additional budgetary funds.

Armenian PM Karen Karapetyan said the aforementioned in the Government on Wednesday, responding to the question Armenian National Congress (ANC) faction Secretary Aram Manukyan.

The latter was surprised by the establishment of the new authority against the backdrop of the calls to budgetary savings.

To this Karapetyan responded that all the expenses of the Center are born by the private sector. “We consider this center to be very important, since the development issues of very different sectors—healthcare, sociology and economics—will be discussed there,” he said.