YEREVAN. - After the April war any issue related to the army is solved very fast, which should continue this way.

Spokesperson for the Armenian Defense Ministry, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, said the aforementioned at the discussion in the Media Center on Monday, referring to the scandalous '1000 AMD to the Army' initiative. 

''It turns out we are against the form of this initiative, but not against its content and thus we can't solve this strategic issue because of the form. And this in case we realize that the issus related to the army are solved very quickly, which should continue that way. Even if we raise an issue of ideal administration in the army, preventing any supplier and general from making abuses, the means will, of course, not be sufficient for solving this issue. Who said that everything is ideal in the army now and that only this issue is left? There have been occasions of distrust in the army, but they were unjustifiably multiplied in the Facebook reality. There are no multi millionaire generals in the country at all, I'm saying this officially. These talks were launched in Facebook reality. I think currently the governance transparency proposed by the fund is very well, I can imagine no better way of doing this. I represent not only this agency but also the guys, who stand in the trenches and believe in this initiative,'' he said.

Hovhannisyan also noted that '1000 AMD to the Army' initiative can seriously attract contract servicemen to join the armed forces.  

Attorney Avetik Ishkanyants, for his part, noted that there is no nation-army confidence now, which is very important. ''This confidence doesn't emerge through adopting laws and binding them: it should emerge through other methods, and then the society will make payments upon its own initiative.''

On November 10, the Armenian Government approved the bill, under which any working citizen of Armenia should pay 1000 AMD monthly to the fund of servicemen's assistance. Pursuant to the bill, the families of those dead and servicemen with disability group I will receive non-recurrent 10 mln AMD (group II will receive 5 mln AMD), which will be followed by monthly payments during 20 years. The payment for officers, warrant officer and privates (dead and included in disability group I) will constitute 300,000, 250,000 and 100,000 AMD per month respectively. Those included in disability group II will get 200,000, 150,000 and 100,000 AMD per month respectively.