Azerbaijani Parliament demands additional budget funds for journeys

Baku. 8 December. REPORT.AZ/ AZN 23 089 714 allocated for maintenance of Milli Majlis (Azerbaijani Parliament) and its apparatus in 2017 state budget, which is AZN 394 784 or 1.74% more than that in 2016.

Report informs, head of Milli Majlis maintenance department Firudin Hajiyev told during discussions on expenditures at plenary session. According to him, salaries make up 74.5% of overall estimate: “Number of visits of foreign guests, duty journeys abroad, domestic trips have been risen. AZN 1.11 mln. for journeys is the same as in 2016”.

F.Hajiyev proposed to increase fund for journeys.

Speaker Oktay Asadov drew attention to necessity of revision of Milli Majlis estimate: “I told prime minister and finance minister that journey fund should be rearranged properly. Because if parliamentarians don’t attend international organizations, some problems may occur”.