YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. Quite often, Armenian officials do not answer questions of National Assembly deputies in time, thus violating the Rules of Procedure of the NA, member of "Heritage" parliamentary faction Anahit Bakhshian said at the National Assembly on February 3. She reminded that by the law, officials must either give a written answer to the question of a deputy or organize a discussion with the participation of the deputy within 10 days, and in case of a discussion the deputy must be informed about it 3 days in advance. Whereas, the answers to the questions of deputies either are belated or remain unanswered, and letters sometimes disappear. According to A. Bakhshian, such cases often happen in Yerevan mayor's office where a deputy's letter about 7 cases of illegal construction was "lost" recently. She said that very often answers are not given because of officials' ignorance of laws, also because they are not familier with the given problem and even do not have the necessary education. In the words of A. Bakhshian, if state officials show such an attitude to questions of deputies, ordinary citizens can hardly get their attention.

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