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Kammenos rules out salary cuts or dismissals in military

Kammenos rules out salary cuts or dismissals in military

Defence Minister Panos Kammenos on Thursday stressed that he will not accept any further reduction in the salaries of armed forces' officers, which had already been reduced by more than 60 pct.

Kammenos was speaking during swearing in of new recruits in the city of Tripoli, where he pointed out that military officers were "not doing the same job as other civil servants" but were on call and on alert on a 24-hour basis.

He also ruled out the possibility for further cuts to defence budgets or dismissals for the armed forces.