16 Refugee Families Handed Over Housing Certificates

Panorama.am

13:56 01/09/06

16 REFUGEE FAMILIES HANDED OVER HOUSING CERTIFICATES

Sixteen refugee-families from Azerbaijan, who resided in a hostel at
70/1 Moldovakan address, received certificates on flat ownership
today. Aram Harutunyan, minister of city building, told reporters that
the certificates for 1-room flats cost 6.511 million Armenian
drams. The Ministry of City Building relies on market prices submitted
by the State Cadastre. In his words, some 590 refugee-families
received such certificates last year.

Gagik Yeganyan, head of agency for migration and refugees, informed
the reporters that another 220 families, residing in Kotaik region,
will receive such certificates by the end of the year. The state
budget envisages 875 million Armenia drams for such purposes.

Program 2005-2007, with a budget of over $25 million, will provide
housing to 3200 refugee-families. As of today, 10.5 thousand refugees
live in Armenia. /Panorama.am/

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS