The increase is according to the 2023 draft budget that has yet to be passed by the Armenian National Assembly.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and CSTO General Secretary Stanislav Zas met today in Yerevan and discussed the work conducted by a CSTO fact-finding delegation that arrived in Armenia on September 15.
The news outlet, citing unnamed sources, says the order includes Indian-made Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launchers, anti-tank rockets and various types of ammunition.
PM Nikol Pashinyan, at today’s cabinet session, said his administration will take steps to set the minimum wage at 85,000 drams by 2026.
Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia Laura Cooper met today in Washington D.C. and discussed this month’s fighting along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, citing continuing military threats from Azerbaijan, has called for an international observer mission to be deployed along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
Pashinyan, at today’s government cabinet session, claimed that Azerbaijan has launched a campaign to convince Armenia’s allies, and others, to freeze millions of dollars’ worth of arms shipments to Armenia.
Moreover, such provocation of Azerbaijan is aimed at disrupting the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the two countries, the arrangement of which is under discussion.