Over 3,000 foreigners visited Karabakh in 2004 – Armenian web site

Yerkir web site
18 Jan 05

YEREVAN

A total of 3,172 foreign nationals – 203 from the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) and 2,969 from other countries of the world –
visited the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic in 2004, Armenpress reported
quoting the republic’s Foreign Ministry.

This figure does not include the foreigners who travelled to Karabakh
as members of foreign diplomatic delegations and missions, Yura
Zakaryan of the ministry said.

He added that 70 per cent of the visitors were tourists, and the other
30 had business goals. The vast majority of the visitors were members
of the Armenian diaspora.