Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian government will start discussions of the protocol draft state budget for year 2010 on September 11.

Mediamax reports that Minister of Finance of Armenia Tigran Davtyan said this at the session of the government today.

He described the budget for 2010 as “modest and tense”. According to him, the protocol draft represents only the text part of the document.

Tigran Davtyan informed that the project includes only deficit indices for the year 2010 at the volume of 5.5% and the forecast for the economic growth for 2010 – 1.3%.

The Minister of Finance noted that in 2010, the leadership of the country intends to renounce certain expenses and will work in the direction of cutting down deficit.