PAPER WILLS WITH THE EXPECTATION OF STONE HOUSES

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[03:25 pm] 20 June, 2006

Today is the World Refugee Day. According to the representatives
of the Yerevan department of "Cringo" Network more than 1.5 million
refugees and displaced people because of the conflicts existing in
the Caucasian region look forward to reliable and favorable solution
to their matter; either local integration or return to their homeland.

"Cringo" wants to put the issue of providing the above mentioned people
with houses on the agenda as a fundamental issue of human rights,"
pointed out Seyran Martirosyan, member of the coordinating council.

About 235 000 refugees settled in Armenia, 70 – 75 thousand adopted
Armenian citizenship and 60 – 70 thousand live abroad.

NGOs of "Cringo" Network will initiate a campaign all over the Caucasus
on June 12 – 20. Seyran Martirosyan claims that one of their first
steps will be the screening and demonstrating the housing conditions
of the refugees and displaced people in three cities – Yerevan,
Tbilisi and Baku. They sent a message to all interested persons and
circles of society reflecting the general picture and analysis of
the refugees and displaced people in the corresponding regions of
North and South Caucasus. Besides, 3000 symbolic hoses were made by
children and distributed in all regions which attracted everybody’s
attention. "This action is aimed at reminding the decision makers
that a large percent of refugees and displaced people in the Caucasus
live in collective settlements and are deprived of their fundamental
right to have a shelter." Though many people suffer from poverty in
the Caucasus there are special issues relating to displaced people
who are the most vulnerable layer of the society. One of them is the
issue of dwelling places," noted Seyran Martirosyan.

By the way, they underlined the fact that on the one hand the prices
of houses are going up rapidly in the market, and on the other houses
are fewer nowadays.

Thus the solution of the disputed issue lingers.