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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, ARMENPRESS. The government allocated more than 157,000,000 drams from the reserve fund to the Ministry of Emergency Situations to compensate the expenditures of the humanitarian aid sent to the countries affected by the earthquake.
“The humanitarian cargo was sent twice by air to Syria and twice by land to Turkey,” Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Pambukhchyan said at the Cabinet meeting.
The rescuers who were sent to Syria have already returned, while those sent to Turkey are now on their way back.
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