Armenian servicemen’s salaries not to be raise, but rewards implied instead – Tonoyan

ARKA, Armenia

Nov 13 2018

YEREVAN, November 13. /ARKA/. Armenian Acting Defense Minister David Tonoyan, speaking Monday at a news conference, said that despite the 26.6 percent growth of the ministry’s budget, salaries will not be raised.

Instead, the ministry intends to pay rewards to frontline servicemen thanks to efficient spending of the budget funds, he said.

“If the economy develops properly, tax inflow intensifies and the budget grows, it will become possible to speak about increase in salaries,” Tonoyan said.

In his words, 1,400 apartments will be allocated to officers in service and retired servicemen from the ministry’s housing fund.

The process is under way now, he said, and 120 servicemen have already received apartments.

The acting defense minister also said that another decision implies preferential mortgage lending terms not only for young for servicemen, but also for those having significant service records. –0–

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS