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12.07.2019
Problems on Refugees and Asylum Seekers Discussed
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On July 12, on the initiative of the deputy of the RA NA My Step Gayane Abrahamyan a debate was organized on the problems of the refugees and asylum seekers. The Representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Anna-Carin Ost, the MPs, representatives from the Government and a number of NGOs took part in the meeting.

Gayane Abrahamyan has noted that the refugees and the asylum seekers are considered to be more vulnerable and in terms of protection of their rights demand more attention. According to her, the creation of the favourable conditions for the refugees is one of the most important problems facing the state, which gradually obtain greater volumes, by focusing the attention of the international community to them and demanding to reach the cooperation and the assistance between the states to a new qualitative level. It has been underlined that there is need to work out a new agenda and strategy to review the existing problems.

The Head of the Migration Service of the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration and Sub-Structures Armen Ghazaryan highlighted the format of the debate of the issue on the parliamentary format, touched upon the refugees’ integration problems. He has noted that there is need of working out integration strategy, also considering topical the item of providing the forcibly deported citizens from Azerbaijan with apartments.

The Representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Anna-Carin Ost has stated that at present there are more than 70mln deported people in the world, and 25mln out of them are refugees, who need assistance. She expressed readiness to support the RA Government for solving the problems.

The RA First Deputy Speaker of Labor and Social Affairs Gemafin Gasparyan has noted that Armenia is a state that has survived after Genocide, and the Armenian knows well what means a refugee. According to him, the Republic of Armenia showed deep concern and sympathy towards the sufferings of the civilians in the world and the destruction of different countries. He mentioned that more than 22.000 refugees were moved from Syria to Armenia during the Syrian conflict. Gemafin Gasparyan also referred to the Motherland deprivation during the Karabakh conflict and the continuous violations of the rights.

In their speeches the speakers talked about the legislative existing regulations, the integration of the newly recognized refugees, their protection in the context of the conflict regulation the Azerbaijani Armenians’ problems, as well as the compensation of the material and moral losses, the accounting of the working years and the pension counting.

The questions addressed to the speakers related to the peculiarities of the refugees’ constitutional-legal status in the RA, the international legal and inner-state guarantees of the protection of the refugees’ rights.


12.07.2019
Delegation Led by Ararat Mirzoyan is To Leave for the United States on a Working Visit
The delegation led by the RA NA President Ararat Mirzoyan will be on a working visit in Washington on July 14-18, in Boston on July 19-21 and in New York on July 25-26.The Head of the RA NA Armenia-USA Friendship Group, the Head of the NA My Step Faction Lilit Makunts, the Head of the NA Bright Arme...

12.07.2019
Road Map of Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement Application Discussed
On July 12, the RA NA Standing Committee on European Integration convened an extraordinary sitting moderated by Arman Yeghoyan to discuss the Road Map of Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement application.Arman Yeghoyan underlined that the Committee members actively took part in...

12.07.2019
Committee Members Debate Mid-Term Expenditure Programmes of Coming Year and for 2020-2022
On July 22, the RA NA Standing Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Diaspora, Youth and Sport convened an expanded sitting to debate the preliminary version of the mid-term expenditure programmes of the coming year and for 2020-2022 and the budgeting bid for 2020, where the RA Minister of Educa...

12.07.2019
Vahe Enfiajyan: Summer Call-up for Military Service Goes on at Decent Level
On July 12, the RA NA Deputy Speaker visited the Yerevan N 2 Military Commissariat of the RA Ministry of Defense. The goal was to get acquainted with the summer call-up for military service that everything was organized according to the letter of law at decent level. The officers of the functioning ...



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