Immigration into Karabakh on the increase – official

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1 Oct 04

>From 1994 up till now, 23,000 people have moved to the Nagornyy
Karabakh Republic [NKR] and 150 settlements have been reconstructed,
including 120 settlements reconstructed completely.

The chief of the NKR department for refugees, migration and
resettlement, Serzh Amirkhanyan, said that 623 people (120 families)
moved to the NKR in January and February 2004, which is more than in
the same period of 2003.

Certain work is being carried out in the legislative sphere to resolve
the problems of Armenian refugees who were deported from Azerbaijan in
1988-1992, Serzh Amirkhanyan said.