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    REFUGEES MUST BE GRANTED NKR CITIZENSHIP
    [05:04 pm] 30 November, 2006

    Over 25 - 30 thousand Armenian refugees, forcibly
    displaced by Azerbaijan, don't want to return to their
    former dwelling places reports `Refugees and
    International Right' Civil network.

    In 6000 questionnaires the refugees claim that `they
    will continue to protect their rights refusing any
    material and moral compensation'.

    The polling was held among the Armenian refugees
    living in the NKR, USA and Russia.

    Today the network introduced a bill referring to the
    refugees' citizenship.

    The network intends `to increase the number of the NKR
    citizens by 500 - 550 thousand people within 3 - 4
    years'.

    The Refugees and International Right Civil network
    turned to Robert Kocharyan, Minsk group Co-Chairs,
    Ilham Aliev with this request.

    Today there was a heated argument on the bill. The
    participants of the debate wondered who will be
    granted the NKR citizenship by law, on which criteria
    they will be chosen and which territories the refugees
    will return.

    Arman Melikyan, advisor to the NKR President, claims
    that taking into account the principle of dual
    citizenship, all the NKR citizens born in the
    territory of the NKR (both Armenians and Azeris) will
    be granted citizenship.
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