STATE ASSISTANCE TO BE SHOWN TO RELATIVES OF PASSENGERS DIED IN PLANE CRASH

Noyan Tapan
May 05 2006

YEREVAN, MAY 5, NOYAN TAPAN. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the
RA Government’s Information and Public Relations Department,
the Government discussed the draft decision about showing state
assistance to funeral of people died in the consequence of the plane
crash. According to it, it was decided to allocate 129 mln drams
(about 287 thousand U.S. dollars) from the Government’s reservation
fund envisaged by the RA 2006 state budget to assist victims’
funeral, preparing and placing gravestones (1 mln 500 thousand
drams on the account of every victim). Other 15 mln 255 thousand
drams were allocated to the Yerevan Mayor’s Office to give it to
the “Special Service for Inhabitation” CJSC of the Mayor’s Office
to assist the funeral (135 thousand drams on the account of every
victim). By the decision, the RA Minister of Labour and Social Issues
was allowed to give on hand the financial resources allocated by the
mentioned decision to people undertaking the burial of the plane crash
victims. The RA Ministry of Finance and Economy was instructed to open
a special current account for, with its help, everybody who wants has a
possibility to show assistance to families of the plane crash victims.