ARMENIAN REFUGEE FAMILIES WILL BE OFFERED SOLUTIONS - YEREVAN MAYOR
news.am
April 20 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan held a meeting on Wednesday
with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Representative Damtew
Dessalegne.
At present, 1,300 refugees living in Yerevan hostels need housing.
The Yerevan Mayor informed UNHCR representative of a social housing
program being discussed now. Under the program, refugee families will
be offered solutions, the Yerevan city hall told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Damtew Dessalegne said that the problem can be more effectively
resolved in cooperation with the UNHCR.
The sides also discussed alternative ways of resolving the housing
problem.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
April 20 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan held a meeting on Wednesday
with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Representative Damtew
Dessalegne.
At present, 1,300 refugees living in Yerevan hostels need housing.
The Yerevan Mayor informed UNHCR representative of a social housing
program being discussed now. Under the program, refugee families will
be offered solutions, the Yerevan city hall told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Damtew Dessalegne said that the problem can be more effectively
resolved in cooperation with the UNHCR.
The sides also discussed alternative ways of resolving the housing
problem.
From: A. Papazian