The Armenian Foreign Ministry has unfulfilled its expenses for foreign business trips in 2021, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said.

His remarks came on Monday during the joint session of parliamentary standing committees at the preliminary discussion of the state budget 2021 in the National Assembly.

Particularly, the expenditures for the maintenance of the staff of the Foreign Ministry exceeded AMD 17bln. It was implemented by 97.1%. "As you probably remember, the senior personnel of the Department has not been staffed for a long time. For this reason, there were fewer business trips than originally planned," Mirzoyan said.