MORE THAN 600 PEOPLE ARRIVE IN ARMENIA FROM LEBANON AND ISRAEL SINCE
BEGINNING OF OPERATIONS, ANOTHER 120 PEOPLE TO ARRIVE TOMORROW
YEREVAN, JULY 26, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A consultation
dedicated to Armenia’s possibilities to provide a humanitarian
assistance to Lebanon that suffered from war took place on July
26 at RA Government, by the instruction of RA Prime Minister. The
consultation was conducted by RA Minister of Territorial Government
Hovik Abrahamian.
According to RA Government Press Service, the consultation participants
discussed issues relating to providing possible first and foremost
aid according to the list provided by Lebanon, as well as delivery
of this aid and other organization issues.
Proceeding from the above mentioned possibilities, it was decided
to provide medicines, equipments and tents to Lebanese people that
suffered from the humanitarian disaster. RA Minister of Economy and
Finance was instructed to prepare a draft government decision after
coordinating the issue with the Prime Minister, for the purpose of
submitting the draft decision for approval on July 27. After making
a decision the aid will be sent the same day by a plane flying late
in the evening to Aleppo.
RA Deputy Foreign Minister and Head of Migration Department of
RA Ministry of Territorial Government presented the work done in
the direction of moving RA and foreign citizens from Lebanon to
Armenia. It was mentioned that more than 550 compatriots have been
moved from Lebanon to Armenia up to this day and another 54 people
have arrived from Israel. It is expected that another 120 people will
arrive in Armenia by a special flight on July 27. These are mainly RA
citizens, but foreign citizens are also moved to Armenia, 51 of which
have already applied to the Migration Agency with a request to receive
a status of temporarily protected persons. 49 of them are Lebanese,
2 Israelis. As the head of the agency said, this status will be given
to them together with the certificate of temporary residence.
In consideration of the fact that the number of persons moving from
the Near Eastern region to Armenia is increasing and not all of them
have relatives or possibility of staying in our country, it was also
charged to discuss the possibilities of providing assistance to them
by preparing the respective draft decision of government if necessary.