In response to the next not specified information not corresponding to the reality of 168 Hours, as if “there is a talk in the NA that in the first quarter the big part of the sums being allocated to the business trips have been spent, and the money won’t be sufficient till the end of the year,” we’ll inform you that, as a result of the journalists’ irresponsible attitude and going to the cheap sensation again the next misinformation has been given to the readers about the National Assembly. Meanwhile, only they shall apply to the NA relevant structure, to specify the information and present accurate information to the public.

The periodical informed to the readers, more precisely, misinformed that as if this year the NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan had many foreign visits, which had been in a bigger staff members. In 2011 the NA Speaker had only one foreign official business trip being on working visit on March 13-15 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Northern Ireland. The members of the delegation led by the NA Speaker have been deputies Arman Sahakyan, Karine Atchemyan, Araik Grigoryan, Karen Avagyan, the NA Chief of Staff Gegham Gharibjanyan, as well as the responsible of the NA Protocol Department, the security official, the interpreter, the head of the of the NA Department of Foreign Relations, the head of the NA Public Relations and Media Department, the photographer and operator. By the NA Speaker’s order, a sum for the business trip has been allocated, which has not been exceeded the size prescribed by the legislation. Thus, the claims of the newspaper have no relation to the reality.

The claims that “the deputies annually have different visits in the foreign countries numerous times, sometimes not so important for Armenia and for the parliamentary activity.”

The parliament works transparent, and its activity is public. Thus, once again we urge the mass media to specify the information spread by them and provide unbiased information corresponding to reality.