Wednesday, March 6 2019 11:25

ArmInfo. "We have to be able to make a decision: are we following the path of serving narrow, personal, group interests, or, conversely, subordinating them to the  interests of the majority.

This is a choice that needs to be made," said Armenian Finance Minister Atom Janjugazyan, commenting on the Facebook social network a working paper in which there is evidence of a reduction of up to 10 thousand public servants.In early March this  year. former Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, former  Minister of Justice Arpine Hovhannisyan published an official  document on her Facebook page - a letter addressed Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan on behalf of Deputy Prime Minister Mger Grigoryan and  Finance Minister Atom Janjugazyan, which refers to the estimated  reduction of 10,000 civil servants. 

The authors of the document as a justification for mass cuts of state  officials cite the following argument:  "Even if 10,000 civil  servants who do not bring additional product to the country (result,  value - red) become unemployed, the Armenian statehood and the entire  public will benefit from it. That is, about 3 million Armenian  citizens. "According to the minister, the authorities did not intend  to ever hide anything.  "Consequently, there can be no talk of  disclosing secrets. I will say more - it is impossible to do this  (massive cuts in civil servants - ed.) 

Not publicly, and not transparently," he said.At the same time, as  Janzhugazyan pointed out, the document does not indicate specific  figures on the proposed reductions, and 10 thousand is a conventional  number.  "The formulation only concerns the fact that even if we are  talking about such a possible outcome, you still need to compare this  number with the number of those who can win in this situation when  this conditional number suffers.

 Moreover, the word "suffer "is taken in brackets. This, in our  opinion, cannot concern those who create the product ", - explained  the head of the Ministry of Finance.He stressed that this document is  not aimed at focusing on the expected reductions, on the contrary, it  represents possible processes for optimizing the management of the  state apparatus, which were mentioned in the 5-year program of the  new government.  "We are trying to achieve the best result with the  available opportunities. That is, the process is not aimed at  reducing the finances, but at achieving the maximum result," said  Janjugazyan, urging everyone to rally around this idea, because it  implies maximum efficient spending of state budget revenues in our  country with such difficulty. "Regarding whether financial  authorities are calm about the fact that people can be reduced, the  chief financier said: "Of course, we don't take this calmly. We must  be able to make a decision: are we following the path of serving  narrow, personal, group interests, or, conversely, subordinating them  to the interests of the majority. This is a choice that needs to be  made. "As the minister pointed out, the state apparatus was blown up  to its present size not immediately, but for many years. "As a  result, today we have what we have. When we are not talking about any  actions, everyone complains about the scale, level and quality of the  response of the state administration apparatus, but when it comes to  planned measures, complaints begin in this direction. But we have to  take I think we made the decision to choose the best one and demand  the provision of the best quality public services, otherwise we will  come back to what we have, "said Janjugazyan.