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YEREVAN , DECEMBER 25 , ARMENPRESS. Ahead of the first drawing of the National state lottery ticket in Artsakh 250000 tickets are exhausted of 300 000 put into circulation. “Lottery prize fund amounted to 200 million AMD, while the rest of the profits from the National state lottery tickets around 300 million will be directed to the programs of the development of the communities of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, subdivisions, repatriation, strategicfar-reachingotherprograms,” Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh Artur Aghabekyan stated it in a conversation with “Armenpress”. The drawing will kick off on December 28, at 11:00 am, and will last about 6 hours. The day for drawing is symbolic for Artsakh: decades ago the first elections for the Supreme Council of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh were held exactly on December 28. The tickets for the drawing were put into circulation from May 9. One ticket costs 200 AMD. Artur Aghabekyan confesses that they did not have any doubt that they will achieve success when developing the idea. They did not doubt that the Armenian people will untimely participate in the drawing not for the sake of winnings but for the resettlement and development of Artsakh. “Let us regard the drawing ticket as a national duty and realize that we are becoming a participant of brining a very important idea into life,” Deputy Prime Minister says adding that 10 million tickets will be put into circulation next year.