Armenian government’s new five-year program raises bewilderment –Newspaper

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14.06.2012, 14:33

The ruling Republican Party of Armenia is said to compile the government’s new policy for 2012-2017, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) newspaper reports on Thursday.

Armenian government’s new five-year program raises bewilderment –Newspaper

YEREVAN, June 14. /ARKA/. The ruling Republican Party of Armenia is said to compile the government’s new policy for 2012-2017, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) newspaper reports on Thursday.

“The program impresses with eloquent but meaningless expressions and contains some absurd figures,” according to the source.

Particularly, in five years of hard work the government intends to fix 80,000 drams as a minimal wage ( over 190 dollars), and to surge an amount of average pension to 70,000 drams ( 170 dollars).

“The new program also contains an unprecedented article “Outer risks in implementing the government’s program. In other words, the government may fail implementing the program referring to these “outer risks,” the newspaper highlights adding that authorities referred to outer risks explaining the failure of implementing the previous program for 2008-2012. —0—

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