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Armenian President, Ministers, and MPs to Get a Raise
10.04.2013 20:54 epress.am
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is going to get a raise: he will be
paid 900,000 AMD (about $2,220 USD) per month instead of the current
400,000 AMD (about $987), Chair of the parliamentary Standing
Committee on Social Affairs Hakob Hakobyan informed a correspondent
with the local daily Haykakan Zhamanak.
Ministers and MPs' salaries will also go up, reaching 600,000 AMD
(about $1,480).
According to a state budget bill presented in parliament, the
systematic increase in salaries is expected to begin from Jul. 1,
2014. Meanwhile, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan earlier had said
salary increases in all sectors is expected on Jan. 1, 2014, and Serzh
Sargsysan at a meeting with the RA Ministry of Education and Science
in August likewise promised that salaries would go up from Jan. 1.
Asked by the Haykakan Zhamanak correspondent why the authorities were
deceiving the public, Hakobyan said: "This is not deceiving. This is
accurately assessing the available options. If we wanted to deceive,
we would have deceived; we know the way to deceive. But to tell the
bitter truth, that we don't have the money, is a fact; that is our
bitter truth."
http://www.epress.am/en/2013/10/04/armenian-president-ministers-and-mps-to-get-a-raise.html
10.04.2013 20:54 epress.am
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is going to get a raise: he will be
paid 900,000 AMD (about $2,220 USD) per month instead of the current
400,000 AMD (about $987), Chair of the parliamentary Standing
Committee on Social Affairs Hakob Hakobyan informed a correspondent
with the local daily Haykakan Zhamanak.
Ministers and MPs' salaries will also go up, reaching 600,000 AMD
(about $1,480).
According to a state budget bill presented in parliament, the
systematic increase in salaries is expected to begin from Jul. 1,
2014. Meanwhile, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan earlier had said
salary increases in all sectors is expected on Jan. 1, 2014, and Serzh
Sargsysan at a meeting with the RA Ministry of Education and Science
in August likewise promised that salaries would go up from Jan. 1.
Asked by the Haykakan Zhamanak correspondent why the authorities were
deceiving the public, Hakobyan said: "This is not deceiving. This is
accurately assessing the available options. If we wanted to deceive,
we would have deceived; we know the way to deceive. But to tell the
bitter truth, that we don't have the money, is a fact; that is our
bitter truth."
http://www.epress.am/en/2013/10/04/armenian-president-ministers-and-mps-to-get-a-raise.html