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  • Russia, Armenia extend agreement on regulating voluntary migration

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    March 9, 2004 Tuesday

    Russia, Armenia extend agreement on regulating voluntary migration

    By Tigran Liloyan
    YEREVAN, March 9


    Russia and Armenia have extended an inter-governmental agreement on
    regulating the process of voluntary resettlement by another five
    years.

    The relevant protocol was signed by Coordinator Minister Ovik
    Abramyan and Russia's Ambassador to Armenia Anatoly Drykov, in the
    Armenian capital on Tuesday.

    According to Dryukov, the agreement has proved its viability and
    importance over the past few years. For his part, head of Armenia's
    Migration Department Gagik Yeganyan recalled that both states had
    agreed to create favorable conditions for voluntary resettlement of
    their citizens. It is particularly important at present, as Armenians
    begin to return to their Motherland, Yeganyan emphasized.

    The extension of such an agreement will encourage this process, he
    added.

    The Russian-Armenian voluntary migration agreement was signed on
    August 29, 1997.

    Yeganyan said an Armenian delegation would leave for Russia next
    week. It will meet with ethnic Armenians in order to explain to them
    terms of resettlement.

    According to imprecise data, some 800,000 Armenians left the republic
    after it proclaimed independence. They mostly settled in Russia.
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