Zhoghovurd daily writes:
"NA Speaker Alen Simonyan and other CPAs of the National Assembly converts the" CPA "party attached to the" CPA "will continue to ensure the party trips to the ruling deputies.
From official sources, Zhoghovurd daily found that a number of government deputies of the National Assembly of Armenia will be sent abroad during the spring and summer of 2025 to participate in various international conferences.
Their business trips are organized at the expense of the state budget. However, as has already become accepted in recent years, the opposition deputies are not presented in this working visits, which raises serious issues in terms of both internal political balance and accountability.
Thus, on May 14-16, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Ruben Rubinyan will take part in the sitting of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Latvia) in Riga.
Vladimir Vardanyan will take part in the sitting of the PACE Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee in Paris on May 11-14, and Hripsime Grigoryan will take place on May 11-13 in the same city.
MP Lilit Minasyan will represent Armenia at the conference "The Fight against Organized Crime in OSCE Region in the OSCE Region" in Rome (Italy).
Arsen Torosyan, as chairman of the Standing Committee on Healthcare, took part in the official visit of the Prime Minister (Estonia). Sargis Khandanyan and Maria Karapetyan will take part in the "European People's Party 2025" congress in Valencia from April 28 to May 1.
Despite the purpose of such visits, the country's interests and deepening of international relations are constantly asking questions, do these business trips really have a tangible result, and how justified budget expenditures are for their organization? Especially the fact that these visits are not included in opposition representatives, also provides for doubt whether the balance of Armenia's parliamentary diplomacy is not disrupted. "
