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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan received the members of the Public Council of Armenia in the Government headed by Vazgen Manukyan.
The Department of Mass Media and Public Relations of the Government of the Republic of Armenia informed Armenpress that at the course of the meeting the participants discussed development prospects of the country, directions, as well as issues that the society is concerned about. In that context, the interlocutors reacted on the investment of the mandatory accumulated pension system, the issue of the former building of “Zvartnots” airport, as well as a number of cultural, educational, health, agricultural issues.
The Chairman of the Public Council introduced a few suggestions over the mandatory accumulated pension system, in particular, to reduce the 5 % threshold giving opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed model as well, not to spread “mandatory” component over people who get more than 500000 AMD salary and so on. The Prime Minister, reacting on the pension reforms, mentioned that there was no such case in the history of the newly independent state of our country when the law is adopted but is put into force three years later.