USD 40 MILLION REQUIRED TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR REFUGEES FROM AZERBAIJAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.02.2010 19:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "After the violence between February 27 and 29,1988
planned by Azerbaijani government, which later called pogroms, out
of 500 thousand of Armenians relocated from Azerbaijan 360 thousand
people settled in Armenia as refugees," Gagik Yeganyan , Head of
Migration Service at Armenia’s Ministry of Territorial Administration
told a news conference on 26 February in Yerevan.

According to him, the top priority for refugees today is the issue of
housing, and the state is actively engaged in the solution of that
problem. In 2004 the Armenian government pledged to provide with
housing 3470 families. In 2005, 1000 families received certificates
to purchase houses in different regions of Armenia, 700 out of them
used their certificates, and 300 were not able for different reasons,"
Gagik Yeganyan said.

"This program will require USD 40 million. We have decided to organize
International Forum jointly with UN High Commissioner for Refugees
between October-November and invite donor organizations, he said.

The Sumgait pogroms (also known as the Sumgait Massacre or February
Events) was an Azeri-led pogroms of the Armenian population of
Azerbaijani Sumgait from 26 to 29 February 1988. On February 27, 1988,
large mobs made up of Azeris formed into groups that went on to attack
and killed Armenians both on the streets and in their apartments.

Sumgait pogroms lasted three days and were accompanied by widespread
violence, looting and murder. Sumgait events signaled the beginning of
another unprecedented wave of anti-Armenian persecutions and violence
in Azerbaijan, a new genocide. The victims of this of anti-Armenian
persecutions and violence were Armenians of Kirovabad, Kazakhs,
Khanlar, Dashkesan, Mingechaur, Baku and other towns and villages
of Azerbaijan. This has led to floods of refugees from Azerbaijan in
Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress