In 2026, Armenia to reduce appropriations to  Defense Ministry by  approximately 15%

ArmInfo.In 2026, Armenia will reduce appropriations to the Ministry of Defense by approximately 15.2% - from 664.7 billion drams to 563 billion drams  (approximately $1.5 billion), as  noted  in the statement to the  draft state budget for the upcoming year, approved today during a  Cabinet meeting.

According to the document, expenditures on ensuring Armenia's defense  in 2026,  particularly, maintaining combat readiness to ensure the  strategic deployment of the Armed Forces and ensuring the protection  of state borders from external enemies, will amount to 560. 98  million drams (approximately $1.46 billion).  Meanwhile, defense  spending is projected to total 664.7 billion drams (approximately  $1.73 billion) this year, exceeding the defense spending set in the  2024 state budget by 20%.  Overall, state treasury spending on  defense, security, public order, and judicial activities will be  reduced by 102.2 billion drams (approximately $267 million) next  year. As a result, funding for these areas will total 813.2 billion  drams (approximately $2.12 billion). In 2025, this figure was 915.4  billion drams, and in 2024, 776.9 billion drams.

In 2026, Armenia's state budget expenditures will increase by 5%,  rising from 3 trillion 441.6 billion drams, allocated for 2025, to 3  trillion 628 billion drams. Of this, current expenditures will amount  to 2 trillion 924 billion drams (2 trillion 706.8 billion drams in  2025), and 704 billion drams will be allocated for capital  expenditures (or 5.9% of GDP, versus 6.6% or 734.9 billion drams,  allocated in the 2025 state budget).