At the September 28 extraordinary session, RA Government approved the “2010 State Budget” draft bill that will be introduced to the RA National Assembly for discussion by the RA Finance Minister Tigran Davtyan, RA Government Information and PR Department informed NEWS.am.

Under the document, consolidated budget will total AMD 701.1bln. (without inter-budget transfers), whereas expenditure item — AMD 884.7bln.(without inter-budget transfers), while deficit – AMD 183 bln.

2010 budget revenue reaches AMD 676.6 bln. (about U.S. $1.8bln), expenditures — AMD 859.6 bln. (U.S. $2.2bln.), while deficit — AMD 183 bln (U.S. $481 m.).

RA Prime Minister instructed Finance Ministry and Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to reconsider the proposals of the latter and take them into consideration as far as possible, as well as introduce some editing amendments.