Are the Ministry of Defense Cuts at the Expense of Officers' Salaries or Other Issues? Sofia Hovsepyan

MP Sofia Hovsepyan wrote on her Facebook page: “The budget of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports will be reduced by 17 billion drams this year. It is interesting to consider on what account this will happen? Science, public education, culture, sports, or... The budget was approved in December when the country was already in crisis, and it was possible to foresee what risks could arise...

After the approval, it was decided to cut the most sensitive sectors, which are already barely receiving investments and will suffer... The scale of cuts in the Ministry of Defense is larger; is it at the expense of officers' salaries or inspection and other issues? There is a need for efficient spending, not cuts. For instance, a DNA device recently purchased for 250 million drams could have been bought at market value for 105 million drams or understanding whether the need exists or not, considering that an additional DNA sequencer is idling in the former SPID center. Otherwise, it becomes somewhat unclear how...”