ARMENIAN SENIOR TROOPERS’ PENSIONS RISE 10.3%

ARKA
Feb 12, 2009

YEREVAN, February 12. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Government agreed today to
increase the monthly pensions of Armenian senior troopers by 10.3%
to 40,000 drams.

The government decision aims at raising money allowances of local
officers, warrant officers, private soldiers and their families,
said RA Minister of Finance Tigran Davtyan.

"The rise in the pensions of Armenian senior servicemen has been set by
the state budget for 2009," the minister added. ($1 – 305.51 drams?).