EVERY DAY 20-25 PEOPLE APPLY TO ARCHIVE
Panorama.am
21:03 30/11/2007
"More than 3000 citizens applied to our service to present their
documents to "Axa" French insurance company," said Amatuni Virabyan,
the director of the National Archive. According to him every day
20-25 people applied to them in August, but recently this amount
is decreased. "We give them all the necessary documents, but "Axa"
must decide whether they are their inheritors or not. For example,
two are mentioned in their documents with Terlemezyan surname,
whereas 30 people applied as if Terlemezyans."
As Virabyan mentioned there are cases when the facts do not correspond
with whatever people have in theirs.
"In the documents we keep it is mentioned that this man arrived
from Kars, but they have another data and another name. And those,
who present such a document, are not accepted as an heir," said he.
Note that the heirs of genocide victims, who insured in French "Axa"
insurance company in 1880-1930, applied to the court for getting
their heritage.
California state court satisfied Kyurkudjyan and Uzunyan vs. Axa case
and now the company must repay the heirs, and dispose 17.5mln dollars
to Armenian organizations in France.
Armenian Ministry of Justice prepared 1700 documents and 1200 of
then was already sent to them. The other 500 will be sent soon. The
deadline of the applications to get repayment is January 7, 2008.