4130 Armenian Refugees, Who Were Forcefully Displaced from Azerbaijan, Received 280 Million Drams Financial Aid

• 09.05.2017, 17:42
•  Region,  World,  NKR

4130 registered Armenian refugee families in Artsakh who were forcefully displaced from Azerbaijan received 280 million drams in governmental financial assistance from 2008 to 2016, Artsakh’s Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Samvel Avanesyan said during the "Military- political strategy of the adversary and our tasks" conference held on September 4 in Yerevan, Armenpress reports.

"With the creation on the department of migration, refugees and immigrants, the NKR laws on "Legal and social-economic guarantees of forcefully displaced people of Azerbaijan in 1988-1992 who were granted NKR citizenship" and "On Refugees" was adopted in 2004. Since 2005, the registration of refugees and provision of financial compensation began, which cannot be considered as compensation for material properties which was left behind Azerbaijan’’, Avanesyan said.

The 4130 families who were registered as refugees have already received more than 280 million drams in financial aid, which however isn’t sufficient.

According to him, the government displays impartial attitude by creating equal conditions for using social protection rights for the locals and the refugees, but they are not receiving financial aid from various international humanitarian organizations.