MORE MONEY RELEASED TO CULTURE

Panorama.am
17:08 07/11/06

Some 62.4 million drams more money will be released from the state
budget to culture in 2007 as compared to 2006 recording 12.4% rise and
totaling 9 billion 770 million drams, Pavel Safaryan, deputy minister
of finance and economy said. Similar to other sectors, rise in salary
is expected in 2007 making up 36.3 thousand drams in average salary
against 30 thousand this year.

Big sums will be allocated to 16 libraries and National Library
totaling 177 million drams. Money will also be released to Garni,
Zvartnots museums which will have night illumination. Some 945 million
drams will be allocated to reconstruction and another 715 million to
recovery of cultural monuments.