900 THOUSAND – 1M RA CITIZENS EMIGRATE FROM ARMENIA SINCE 1992

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 23, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Migration Agency of the RA Ministry
of Territorial Administration has created a new Internet system with
the address. Its goal is to provide information to
RA citizens living abroad on issues they are concerned with. As Gagik
Yeganian, the Head of the Agency, said at the June 20 press conference,
people can apply to the system with issues of RA citizenship, loss
of documents, their return, compulsory military service in RA, and
other issues. Besides, according to him, system’s special online
regime gives a possibility to conduct an interview between a citizen
and a competent employee of country’s proper state body.

G. Yeganian said that 900 thousand – 1m RA citizens have emigrated from
Armenia since 1992. Nearly 70% of them have left for CIS countries,
including nearly 65% to RF.