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    TRAGEDY OF SYRIAN-ARMENIANS TO UNITE ALL ARMENIANS - RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER

    tert.am
    01.08.12

    The military actions in Aleppo force the Armenian community to
    immigrate. Though the flow of Syrian-Armenians is not big, the number
    of people wishing to return to their historic homeland grows, Russian
    Nezavisimaya gazetta writes.

    The paper says in the first half of the running year 3,248
    Syrian citizens have applied for getting Armenian citizenship,
    tens of them asked to be granted status of refugees. According to
    Armenia's State Migration Service all the applications have been
    satisfied. Besides, the authorities have facilitated the entrance
    regime for Syrian-Armenians who can get visas on the border or in
    the airports.

    The author of the article Yuri Simonyan says taking into consideration
    the social-economic issues in Armenia and high unemployment rate,
    it is difficult to forecast how many Syrian-Armenians would like to
    move to their historic homeland.

    "Some of the Syrian-Armenians confess that Armenia is a safe place
    for them to wait until the crisis is over and decide what to do after.

    Some of them though have stated about their inten-tion to settle in
    Armenia permanently," Simonyan writes.

    Armenian Weekly also referred to the issue of the Syrian-Armenians,
    saying that immigrating to Armenia is not as simple as one might
    imagine. "First, many in the community are not willing to abandon
    the country-Syria-that they have called home for decades. Even if
    the will is there, abandoning homes and properties-temporarily or
    otherwise-has proven to be an impediment. The real estate market in
    Syria at the moment is suffering, and without financial security,
    surviv-ing in Armenia will have its share of challenges.

    Historian Ara Sanjian at the University of Michigan-Dearborn believes
    Armenians worldwide must provide moral and financial support to
    the Armenians in Syria, "especially if and when schools reopen in
    the fall."


    From: Baghdasarian
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