Armenian government to send 100 veterans for summer rest

15:47 • 09.08.12



Armenian government allocated 12 million drams to the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry for organizing summer rest of 100 veterans of Great Patriotic War.

 

According to the government’s press release, the earning of veterans, their age, necessity of their health preservation and restoration have been taken into consideration.

 

“Sending our veterans for summer rest with the state means has become a beautiful tradition,” Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said.
 

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