Armenian military spending to increase by $30m in 2006

Mediamax news agency, Yerevan, in Russian
28 Sep 05

ARMENIAN MILITARY SPENDING TO INCREASE BY 30M DOLLARS IN 2006

Yerevan, 28 September: The Armenian government will allocate another
13bn drams (about 30m dollars) for military spending in 2006.

Deputy Finance and Economy Minister Pavel Safaryan said this in
Yerevan today while speaking about the draft state budget of 2006
approved by the Armenian government today. Spending on health will
grow by 6.7bn drams [15m dollars] and education by 8bn [18m dollars].

The minimum salary in 2006 will total 15,000 drams [33 dollars]
instead of 13,000 [28 dollars]. The amount of compulsory social
payments will total 7,000 drams [15 dollars] instead of the current
5,000 drams [11 dollars].