Wounded Armenian citizens will receive one-time 500,000 dram assistance
27.01.2021,
13:53
Armenian citizens who were wounded during the 44-day war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, unleashed by Azerbaijan and Turkey, will receive one-time money assistance to the tune of 500,000 drams (about $1000).
YEREVAN, January 27. /ARKA/. Armenian citizens who were wounded during the 44-day war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, unleashed by Azerbaijan and Turkey, will receive one-time money assistance to the tune of 500,000 drams (about $1000). A decision to that end was approved today by the government of Armenia.
Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mesrop Arakelyan said this decision does not apply to those servicemen who were granted 1 and 2 category disability, who are eligible to monthly financial assistance.
“The citizens eligible to 500,000 dram assistance are not only conscripts, but also reservists, volunteers and others who were wounded and underwent treatment in military and civilian hospitals for some time,” Arakelyan said.
According to the minister, the assistance will become available within 10 days. Applications can be sent electronically.
The minister stressed that there will be no need to personally submit the required information, moreover, there is no need to submit additional documents and certificates, since the databases have already been drawn up both for Armenia and Artsakh.
According to him, about 6 thousand citizens are eligible to receiving the one-time assistance. He also said those who were recognized as 1 and 2 category disabled number about one thousand. He added that some 120 of them need artificial limbs.
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
After 44 days of the war, on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged. -0-
Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mesrop Arakelyan said this decision does not apply to those servicemen who were granted 1 and 2 category disability, who are eligible to monthly financial assistance.
“The citizens eligible to 500,000 dram assistance are not only conscripts, but also reservists, volunteers and others who were wounded and underwent treatment in military and civilian hospitals for some time,” Arakelyan said.
According to the minister, the assistance will become available within 10 days. Applications can be sent electronically.
The minister stressed that there will be no need to personally submit the required information, moreover, there is no need to submit additional documents and certificates, since the databases have already been drawn up both for Armenia and Artsakh.
According to him, about 6 thousand citizens are eligible to receiving the one-time assistance. He also said those who were recognized as 1 and 2 category disabled number about one thousand. He added that some 120 of them need artificial limbs.
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
After 44 days of the war, on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged. -0-
