Last year, 4 billion 541.6 million manats out of 4 billion 579 million manats programmed for defense and national security spending were implemented, APA reports citing the Cabinet of Ministers' report for 2021.
Thus, 99.2 percent of the spending allocated for defense and national security was spent in the relevant direction, which is 786.5 million manats or 20.9 percent more than in 2020.