Thursday, October 19 2023 14:40

ArmInfo.A regular Cabinet meeting took place today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,  the press service of the RA Government reports.

The Government made redistribution in the state budget, amending one  of the previously adopted decisions and allocated money to the  Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. The decision provides for  allocating social support for 6 months to about 100,652 citizens  forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh: 40,000 AMD per month to  live in temporary accommodation and 10,000 AMD to help pay for  utilities. Accordingly, 2 billion AMD will be allocated from the  reserve fund of the state budget to provide financial support to  40,000 forcibly displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh for the month  of October. Within the framework of the decision, it will be  necessary to allocate 30 billion AMD for the months October 2023 to  March 2024.

Nikol Pashinyan also noted that more than 3,000 people forcibly  displaced from Nagorno Karabakh have left the Republic of Armenia.  "As of today, more than 3,000 people forcibly displaced from Nagorno  Karabakh have left the Republic of Armenia. I don't want to draw  conclusions related to this topic. Maybe, many of them go to see  their relatives, to spend some time. I hope that we give that message  very clearly and I also call on our brothers and sisters who were  forcibly displaced from Nagorno Karabakh to have as a priority plan  to stay in the Republic of Armenia. We do everything to support them.  In the event that there will be no de-facto desire or opportunity to  return to Nagorno-Karabakh, our policy is to do everything so that  they remain in the Republic of Armenia," said the Prime Minister.

The Head of the Government once again called on those forcibly  displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh not to consider emigration from the  Republic of Armenia as a plan for upcoming actions. "We have  allocated more than 100 million USD, we will implement all kinds of  projects."

The Government approved the concept of the "Academic City" project.  As stated by the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport  Zhanna Andreasyan, two sites are planned for the physical location of  the academic city. "The area adjacent to the 17th district of the  city of Yerevan, the majority of which is state or community  property, and the area of the Hamo Beknazaryan "Hayfilm" movie  studio, the combined area of which is about 700 hectares. At the  moment, four clusters are detailed in the concept. These are the  clusters for technology, craft, education and officers. The planned  sites are adjacent to one interstate highway. The Academic City will  also be connected to the capital by a railway, a part of which  already passes through the main area. It is planned that the movement  inside the Academic City will have a special regulation, organized by  bicycles, electric transport and other means," said the minister. The  project schedule will have three phases: a design phase starting in  October 2023 and ending in September 2025, a construction phase  starting in October 2025 and estimated to end in December 2029.

The Prime Minister noted. "This is one of our biggest projects, and  we have to be very attentive, consistent, so that we can implement  everything on time. It is really a strategic plan that will  predetermine the future of the Republic of Armenia in many ways."

The Government approved the bills on Amendments and Additions to the  Law "On State Property Management", on Amendments and Additions to  the Law "On Public Service" and on Amendments to the Law "On State  Protocol". As the Minister of Justice Grigor Minasyan noted, the  package of bills regulates the legal relations of the management of  gifts received by public servants and becoming state property.  According to the bills, in particular, in case of receiving gifts  during official visits, business trips or ceremonial gifts exceeding  60 thousand AMD, it will be possible to hand them over to museums or  the national library, donate them, leave them for the temporary use  of the receiving official or state body until the end of the term of  office. The Prime Minister also emphasized the clarification of the  regulation related to the use of gifts. "One thing we should note is  that officials do not have the right to receive gifts and gifts  cannot be given to officials. We have to record this finally, making  it a normal daily perception of our life, because we see concrete  results of consistent anti-corruption policy," said the Prime  Minister.