Friday, May 10 2019 14:54

ArmInfo. The procedure for granting housing purchase certificates to military retirees of the Armenian armed forces will be streamlined. At the May 10 meeting, the  RA government approved the procedure and the amount of financial  assistance from the state, as well as the types of certificates.

As RA Minister of Defense David Tonoyan noted in his speech, at the  end of last year, 5.7 billion drams were allocated to the  implementation of this program by the country's budget for the  current year. At the same time, in the capital of Armenia, the state  will subsidize 50% of the market price of an apartment in a high-rise  residential building, in regions - 70% and in rural areas - 90%. The  program will first work in the border regions of the country, then in  the regions, and only at the very end - in Yerevan. The minister  stressed that the former military personnel will be able to  compensate the remaining amount with mortgage loans. In total, the  project involved about 1200 beneficiaries. It is planned within the  framework of the program to completely close the issue in the  regions, and as for Yerevan, various options will be offered here.

In turn, the RA Prime Minister pointed out the need for a flexible  approach to resolving this issue. According to him, it is  unacceptable if there will be demands for the purchase of housing on  Northern Avenue or on Mashtots Avenue, on which many members of the  government do not have their own housing. In these areas should live  people who legally earned millions. The same applies to graduates of  orphanages. "What is wrong if they continue apartments in Artik,  Gyumri and other cities of the country," the head of government  wondered, adding that "we can live in the third section, although we  can temporarily not live there." however, I state that it is a very  good place, "Nikol Pashinyan stressed.  It should be noted that the  permanent apartment of the head of the Armenian government is located  in the working quarter of the Armenian capital (on the third  section), although he currently resides at a government dacha in the  Hrazdan gorge.