BY 2008 DRAFT STATE BUDGET, ALLOCATIONS FOR NSS EXCEED BY MORE THAN ONE BILLION DRAMS 2007’s ALLOCATIONS

Noyan Tapan
Nov 1, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, NOYAN TAPAN. By the 2008 draft state budget
of the RA, 12 bln 866 mln drams will be allocated to the National
Security Service (NSS) adjunct to the RA government, which is more
by 1 bln 124 mln drams or 9.6% as compared with 2007, the RA deputy
minister of finance and economy Pavel Safarian stated at the November
1 joint sitting of the National Assembly standing committees.

480 mln drams (about 1,45 mln USD) of this additional sum is envisaged
to be allocated for increasing salaries and extra payments of NSS
employees.

According to P. Safarian, it is conditioned by an increase in payments
for work on Saturdays, Sundays, holiday days and overtime work.