Expenses of the Armenian President's Administration increased by 10% in 2015, Vigen Sargsyan, the Head of the President's Staff said at the Parliament hearings on the state budget on May 24.
He said that in 2015, the budget of the President's Administration was 4,580 billion drams, 98.6% of which were spent. Sargsyan said that 64.7 million drams were saved and returned to the state budget. As compared to 2014, the spending increased by 10%, due to indexation of salaries, state premiums and organizations of events.
Sargsyan said that in 2015 the president made 20 official and working visits, received 40 high-ranking officials, held 75 meetings with representatives of foreign delegations, 30 meetings with representative of the Diaspora organizations. The head of the President's Staff said 10,468 people were naturalized in 2015, 3.156 of them were Syrian Armenians.
Another 2,476 people refused from the citizenship of Armenia. The president's website was visited by 1 million 911 thousand users, he said.
However, Vigen Sargsyan refused to answer the questions of journalists saying he communicates with the press only through the press-office.