YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia plans to sign agreements on cooperation in the social security sphere with the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Georgia. Artem Asatrian, Head of the Pension Department of RA Ministry of Labor and Social Issues, informed about it on December 17. According to him, the documents to be signed with Bulgaria and Georgia are already being coordinated. As A.Asatrian informed, in particular, Russia and the Ukraine have raised the question of making changes in the CIS interstate agreement in the sphere of social security (1992). The head of the department mentioned that it's suggested that a foreign citizen who has made payments to the social insurance system of a CIS country should have a possibility to receive pension in the country of his citizenship, from the system of the country that received the payment. According to the agreement, each CIS country is obliged to appoint pension to a citizen of another CIS country permanently residing in its territory.

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