Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian stated that in the first quarter, the government saved 13bln AMD from the expenditure part of the state budget.

Mediamax reports that, speaking at the session of the Armenian government today, Tigran Sargsian stated that the expenditure part of the state budget in the first quarter, 2010, made 167bln AMD, instead of the planned 180bln.

Prime Minister also informed that the deficit of the state budget in this period made 8.2bln AMD instead of the planned 32.8bln.