IN THE GOVERNMENT SESSION

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[05:55 pm] 30 March, 2006

PREPARING FOR THE MILLITARY EXERCISES

The signing of the agreement on holding military exercises “Rescuer –
2006” in Armenia between the RA Ministry of Defense and the USA land
forces and the Headquarters of the 7th Army was approved today by
the members of the Government.

The military exercises will be held in the realm of the program
“Partnership for Peace” on July 12 – 28, and about 250 representatives
from 12 countries are supposed to participate in them. The exercises
are aimed at organizing and synthesizing the rescuing service works
of the Emergency Board of the RA Ministry of Regional Government
and the Military – Medical Board of the RA Ministry of Defense. The
exercises also foresee the broadening of the cooperation with the
partner countries.

THE BUDGET IS INCREASING

The government decided to increase the sum of the expenditure and
income prescribed by law on the “Armenian State Budget of 2006”
by 4 milliard 608 million 154 thousand AMD. The Municipality will
carry out the repairing works of Isakov Ave., the construction of
the highway joining Heratsi, Saralandge and Avetisyan Streets with
the extra money accumulated from the state budget capital circulation
of 2006 (from the estrangement of the State territories in Yerevan),
will give money for the reconstruction of flats of the inhabitants
that are deprived of their dwelling places because of their emergency
state, for the observation of emergency houses in Yerevan, for the
purification of the river – bed of Hrazdan and for the construction
of the building protecting the right bank of the river and for the
implementation of other works. It was stated that the money will be
granted to the correspondent bodies without a contest.

THE NEW LEADER OF THE PERSONNEL

The Government decided to appoint Karen Isakhanyan the Leader of
the RA Regional Government Ministry Personnel for three months’
experimental period. Karen Isakhanyan was the winner of the vacant
position contest and the candidate with the highest scores in the
contest according to the data of the contest committee.

“NEUTRON” WAS GIVEN TO THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE

The Executive body ordered the RA Defense Minister to provide the
gratuitous estrangement of houses, subsidiary buildings and the 1.1879
acre occupied by the “Neutron GAM” on 20 Alley on 2 Hin – Nork to the
RA according to the law on “State Administrative Institutions.” The
property was handed to the RA Ministry of Defense.