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    SERGE SARGSIAN: I WOULD LIKE ALL BUDGETS OF ARMENIA TO BE PRE-ELECTION

    Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
    Nov 6 2006

    YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The amount of allocations envisaged
    by the 2007 draft state budget of the RA for the sphere of defence is
    sufficient to keep the fighting efficiency of the Armenian army. The
    RA Defence Minister Serge Sargsian told this to reporters after the
    closed-door discussion of the 2007 state budget allocations for defence
    at the joint sitting of the RA National Assembly standing committees
    on November 6.

    Comparing the military budgets of Azerbaijan and Armenia, the minister
    said: "A billion dillars cannot certainly be compared with 300 million
    dollars. But if 300 million is spent sparingly and purposefully,
    I think it will be sufficient."

    According to him, a growth in financing the RA Defence Ministry is
    envisaged in 2007. The minister said that every year the amount of
    allocations for the defence sphere makes up 3.5% of the country's
    GDP. In his words, the allocations for defence will be proportional
    to the growth of the Armenian economy.

    S. Sargsian said that in 2007, 48% of budget allocations for defence
    will be aimed at increasing salaries, thanks to which the average
    salary of officers will make 165 thousand drams (about 434 USD).

    As for the accusation voiced against the government that the 2007
    budget is pre-elction rather than social, S. Sargsian noted that even
    if this is the case, it does not change anything as a pre-elction
    budget should have a social orientation. "I would like all the budgets
    of Armenia to be pre-election, that is, aimed at solving the social
    problems," the defence minister stated.
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