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YEREVAN, MARCH 14, ARMENPRESS:Hrazdan held a plenary session of Kotayk Province Council in participation with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan. Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Artem Asatryan participated in the session.
The Department of Mass Media and Public Relations of the Government of the Republic of Armenia informed Armenpress that the process of agricultural preparation work activities of spring and the upcoming programs have been introduced.
By the request of the participants the Prime Minister made a detailed introduction on the mandatory accumulative pension system and answered various questions.
Tigran Sargsyan stated that in the condition of aging society the best way to solve the problem of the pensioners is the above mentioned version also by the assessment of the internationally renowned experts. “If we want to provide pensioners with guaranteed secure senility, then we should add the tax burden under the solidarity system of generations of today’s acting system. The best specialists of the world also state that this problem is not only for Armenia: most countries in the world where there is aging of population face it. There is one formula to solve the issue: the employees are obliged to think about their senility together with the state. If the burden is put only on the income tax, it will be never possible to solve the issue,” the Prime Minister said.