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WEB-SITE WWW.TUNDARCARMENIA.AM TO BE CREATED SOON FOR PROMOTING REPATRIATION
Noyan Tapan
Jul 25, 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. 67 thousand refugees have reveived
RA citizenship from 2000 up to now. Gagik Yeganian, the Head of
the Migration Agency of the staff of the RA Ministry of Territorial
Administration stated about this at the July 25 press conference.
He also said that since 2004, 2.9 bln drams (nearly 8.7 million
dollars) was allocated to nearly 800 refugee families by the RA
government through apartment purchase certificates. In the future
another 220 families will get apartment purchase certificates. In the
words of G. Yeganian, during the last five years 4853 apartments and
private residences were built or bought for the refugees with the
resources given by the donor organizations.
The web-site www.tundarcarmenia.am will soon operate for promoting
repatriation. It, in the words of G. Yeganian, will give an opportunity
to the potential repatriates to apply to corresponding departments
over the problems of coming back to Armenia. It was also mentioned
that the number of those who arrived in Armenia in 2006 exceeded the
number of those leaving Armenia by 21.5 thousand.
Touching upon the problems of the labor migration, G. Yeganian
mentioned that the RA Law On "Labor activity of foreign citizens"
will come into force in autumn. According to law, in particular, it is
expected to give preference to RA citizens in the issue of occupying
the vacancies. "Foreign citizens will be invited only in case they do
not occupy it," said the Head of the agency. The latters, according
to Gagik Yeganian, are mainly involved in the spheres of tourism,
construction, jewelry, as well as in service.
Noyan Tapan
Jul 25, 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. 67 thousand refugees have reveived
RA citizenship from 2000 up to now. Gagik Yeganian, the Head of
the Migration Agency of the staff of the RA Ministry of Territorial
Administration stated about this at the July 25 press conference.
He also said that since 2004, 2.9 bln drams (nearly 8.7 million
dollars) was allocated to nearly 800 refugee families by the RA
government through apartment purchase certificates. In the future
another 220 families will get apartment purchase certificates. In the
words of G. Yeganian, during the last five years 4853 apartments and
private residences were built or bought for the refugees with the
resources given by the donor organizations.
The web-site www.tundarcarmenia.am will soon operate for promoting
repatriation. It, in the words of G. Yeganian, will give an opportunity
to the potential repatriates to apply to corresponding departments
over the problems of coming back to Armenia. It was also mentioned
that the number of those who arrived in Armenia in 2006 exceeded the
number of those leaving Armenia by 21.5 thousand.
Touching upon the problems of the labor migration, G. Yeganian
mentioned that the RA Law On "Labor activity of foreign citizens"
will come into force in autumn. According to law, in particular, it is
expected to give preference to RA citizens in the issue of occupying
the vacancies. "Foreign citizens will be invited only in case they do
not occupy it," said the Head of the agency. The latters, according
to Gagik Yeganian, are mainly involved in the spheres of tourism,
construction, jewelry, as well as in service.