Nikol Pashinyan: We do not intend to bear plunder by officials any  longer 

ArmInfo.  "It is often stated that  Armenia's state budget is too meager and there is not enough money  for a lot of programs. But when we see how incompetently the funds  are wasted and some still remains, we realize that the treasury is  not that insignificant, "Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a  meeting with residents of the Berd of the Tavoush region on August  10. According to him, henceforth the government does not intend to  tolerate this situation any longer.  

According to the Prime Minister,  at present the government is ready to provide communities with 10-15  billion drams in the form of subventions (programs that are financed  40% by communities, 60% by the government - ed. note.). The  government wants, but it can not do that. According to Pashinyan, it  turned out that the regions are not ready yet to accept the allocated  funds, first, due to the lack of co-financing from the communities  themselves, and secondly, due to the lack of relevant programs.   According to the Prime Minister, such a situation is the result of  the authorities' non-compassionate attitude, their corruptedness,  cronyism and protectionism.

"Today everybody should realize that the  government does not intend to tolerate this situation any longer. If  we are faced with the choice - to bear plunder, or to arrest, then we  say to those who are guided by the old logic, "we  have to choose the  second," Pashinyan said, urging everyone to engage in a constructive  dialogue.

To recall, at the meeting on July 5 with the leaders of the  communities of Syunik region in Goris municipality the Prime Minister  of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that instead of the planned 5  billion drams in 2018, the government in the form of subventions to  the communities will allocate 10 billion drams from the funds  returned to the state as a result of revealing corrupt cases and  schemes of tax evasion.