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A temporary accommodation center for asylum seekers being built in Armenia’s Abovyan city

A temporary accommodation center for asylum seekers being built in Armenia's Abovyan city

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YEREVAN, JUNE 28, ARMENPRESS. The construction of a temporary accommodation center for asylum seekers started in Abovyan on June 28. ARMENPRESS reports,, the total cost of the program is 1 million 358 thousand Euros, provided by the Governments of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany, and the program is implemented jointly by the International Center for Migration Policy Developmen and Migration Service of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia. A 2-storey monolithic building with all the amenities will be built on the land provided by the Abovyan community.

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‘’The project is planned to be completed by the end of 2022, but the builders give hope that it is possible to do it a little earlier, by mid-2022 the building will be ready. The current special accommodation, which is designed to solve the housing problems of asylum seekers, accommodates about 50 people, although it is designed for 45 people. That is, with some difficulty, but we host 50 people. The current construction envisages the construction of a special shelter that will accommodate about 100 asylum seekers, even 120 people in case of certain arrangements’’, head of Migration Service Armen Ghazaryan said, adding that the housing issue of asylum seekers can be solved for the period of at least 7-8 years.

‘’It is not yet expedient to plan such issues for a longer period, given the rapidly changing migration trends’’, he said.


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