120 FAMILIES INHABITED IN KARABAKH

Azg/am
29 Sept 04

120 families, overall 623 people, inhabited in Nagorno Karabakh since January
to August of 2004, Serzh Amirghanian, head of the Administration for
Migration, Refugees and Resettlement, informed Azat Artsakh (free Artsakh)
newspaper.

According to a state project, the number of resettled should reach 70 thousand
by 2010.

“It won’t be easy to carry out only by means of the state budget. It
will cost $110 million. Whereas we receive only 440 million AMD
annually. By this money we will reach that number only in 120 years”,
Amirghanian said. He also noted that Diaspora’s active involvement
is needed to resettle 68 thousand people by 2010.

“We often say that we will have a winning card in the social and economic
field of Karabakh if its population reaches 300 thousand. The world community
should see that we really have 500 thousand refugees from Azerbaijan”, Serzh
Amirghanian said.