Parliament committee allows government to redistribute another 77 billion drams, including for assistance to Nagorno-Karabakh refugees

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YEREVAN, November 21. /ARKA/. A standing committee of the Armenian parliament in charge of financial and budget issues has approved today a draft law allowing a redistribution of government budget funds.br/pp

According to the current law On State Budget, the maximum amount of budget funds redistribution is 3% of the total, which make 78 billion drams of the 2023, budget./pp

The government has already redistributed 74 billion drams, which make 2.85% of the 2023 state budget./pp

In this regard, the committee suggests that the government is allowed to redistribute another 3% of the state budget or 77.7 billion drams, which will be directed, among other things, to address the basic needs of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees./pp

On September 19, Azerbaijan launched what it called an anti-terrorist operation against ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh./pp

The assault lasted 24 hours and ended with Azerbaijani forces gaining full control of the region for the first time since the 1990s war./pp

This led to a vast refugee crisis, with entire ethnic Armenians fleeing along the narrow mountain road connecting the region to the Republic of Armenia. -0--/pp nbsp;/p