A regular Cabinet meeting took place today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The Government made a decision due to the need to ensure the effective implementation of programs aimed at the development of economic and social infrastructures of the communities of the Republic of Armenia. The decision proposes to allocate 2,903,727.4 thousand AMD from the budget of 2024 to the regional administrations of the Republic of Armenia to fulfill their financial obligations to the relevant construction organizations.

According to the government's decision, amendments and additions will be made to the March 11, 2010 decision of the Republic of Armenia "On approving the standards for the creation of the lists of intangible cultural values of the Republic of Armenia and the list of intangible cultural heritage values". The purpose of the decision is to make additions to the existing list of intangible cultural values, which is necessary due to the provisions of the 2003 UNESCO Convention "On the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage" and the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On Intangible Cultural Heritage", as well as for registering applications related to the values of the intangible cultural heritage of the Republic of Armenia in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO.

A number of changes were made in the list of 300 schools by a series of government decisions, in particular, the status of educational complex was established for some schools and vice versa, while the Urban Development Committee, which was the client for a number of schools, was replaced by the Armenian Territorial Development Fund.

The Government approved the list of products to be stamped within the framework of the pilot program of stamping in the Republic of Armenia. The purpose of the decision is to approve the pilot program for stamping a number of products (tea, coffee, medicines, dyes, perfume and a number of other products).

Another Government decision will regulate the actions related to solving housing security problems of families displaced from Nagorno Karabakh, in particular, single elderly people. The decision proposes to establish such a legal regulation that will enable partner financial organizations to lend loans to also single elderly people within the framework of the program, without taking into account the risk of their death and absence of an heir during the term of the loan.