A Cabinet meeting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The Government approved an instrument of support for families of Armenian servicemen reported missing following the hostilities unleashed by Azerbaijan on September 27, 2020. Welfare assistance will be provided monthly in the amount AMD 300,000, but not for more than 6 months from the date of approval of this activity.

Monthly financial assistance will be provided through the Military Insurance Fund, based on data received from the Ministry of Defense. Assistance will be available until the aforementioned families become beneficiaries in accordance with the applicable law. At this stage the specified funds shall be disbursed from the State budget in the amount of 500 million drams. After the Fund has made the payments, the relevant amounts will be reimbursed from the budget.

One of the measures adopted by the Government envisages 250,000 drams in assistance to those citizens who lost residential facilities registered in the Artsakh Republic as a result of devastation or for other reasons caused by the war unleashed by Azerbaijan against the Artsakh Republic. The Executive amended one of its previous decisions in an effort to support a group of people affected by the martial law declared in the Republic of Armenia.

The decision suggests providing free rehabilitative medical care on state-guaranteed preferential terms to active servicemen (volunteers) injured in action during Azerbaijan’s aggression against Armenia or the Artsakh Republic, as well as to those who took part in hostilities defending the Republic of Armenia. The meeting approved a tuition fee reimbursement facility for those students who took part in hostilities, as well as for the children and spouses of war participants.

The decision is meant to provide 100% reimbursement of tuition fees for the first semester to students involved in the paid full-time and part-time system of bachelor’s, master’s, postgraduate courses at Armenia’s secondary vocational, and postgraduate (clinical residency) educational institutions.

Evoking the aforementioned decisions, Nikol Pashinyan stressed that they stemmed from the roadmap he published on November 18. “We have already developed and passed about a dozen decisions stemming from the roadmap’s rationale. We will continue to develop similar decisions: there are several drafts in circulation, and as we have stated, we will abide by this policy in our future activities,” the Premier said.