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DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER WAS CAUGHT ON LIE: DATA ON REFUGEES RELEASED ON SAME DAY WITH UN WERE INFLATED TWICE
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2013/06/21/gasanov-uno-refugees/
19:32 21/06/2013 " SOCIETY
Yesterday United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued
an annual report, on "Global Trends" for 2012 on the refugees, the
displaced people and asylum seekers.
As the Azerbaijani news agency "APA" reads, according to the data of
the report posted on the website of UNHCR, there have been 15914
refugees, 600336 IDPs, 2113 asylum seekers in Azerbaijan at the end of
2012. Thus, the total number of displaced people in Azerbaijan is
618,363 people. The information in the report is based on data
provided by government, NGO partners, and by the UNHCR.
By the end of 2012 there have been more than 45.2 million of such
people in the world. This is more by 2.7 million than it was at the
end of 2011. This includes 15.4 million refugees, 937,000 asylum
seekers and 28.8 million IDPs.
It is noteworthy that in the same day the Deputy Prime Minister,
Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov
touched upon the issues of refugees and internally displaced people.
At the same time Baku official's figures about the number of refugees
in Azerbaijan were twice bigger than the data of the UN.
According to the "APA" Ali Hasanov stated, "There are not one million
refugees and internally displaced people in Azerbaijan as is usually
reports but 1,200,000." The official said that "one million refugees"
is the statistic of 1992-1993s. But, as Hasanov says, the number of
refugees and IDPs in Azerbaijan increased by 1 million 200 thousand in
20 years.
On September 2, in 1997 at the United Nations Mission of the Republic
of Armenia under the UN in New York, a document was spread about "Data
on refugees, displaced people and those engaged in military operations
in the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan." As the
document said, according to the 1989 census, in all the areas that now
are included in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh there were all in
all 415.6 thousand Azerbaijani people.
According to David Hakobyan, the Migration Agency of the Ministry of
Territorial Administration of Armenia, as a result of Azerbaijan's
policy of ethnic cleansing in 1988-1992, about 500,000 Armenian
refugees were displaced of the country. Around 360,000 of them arrived
in Armenia, and the rest left for other post-Soviet countries, as well
as the EU, the U.S, etc.
Source: Panorama.am
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2013/06/21/gasanov-uno-refugees/
19:32 21/06/2013 " SOCIETY
Yesterday United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued
an annual report, on "Global Trends" for 2012 on the refugees, the
displaced people and asylum seekers.
As the Azerbaijani news agency "APA" reads, according to the data of
the report posted on the website of UNHCR, there have been 15914
refugees, 600336 IDPs, 2113 asylum seekers in Azerbaijan at the end of
2012. Thus, the total number of displaced people in Azerbaijan is
618,363 people. The information in the report is based on data
provided by government, NGO partners, and by the UNHCR.
By the end of 2012 there have been more than 45.2 million of such
people in the world. This is more by 2.7 million than it was at the
end of 2011. This includes 15.4 million refugees, 937,000 asylum
seekers and 28.8 million IDPs.
It is noteworthy that in the same day the Deputy Prime Minister,
Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov
touched upon the issues of refugees and internally displaced people.
At the same time Baku official's figures about the number of refugees
in Azerbaijan were twice bigger than the data of the UN.
According to the "APA" Ali Hasanov stated, "There are not one million
refugees and internally displaced people in Azerbaijan as is usually
reports but 1,200,000." The official said that "one million refugees"
is the statistic of 1992-1993s. But, as Hasanov says, the number of
refugees and IDPs in Azerbaijan increased by 1 million 200 thousand in
20 years.
On September 2, in 1997 at the United Nations Mission of the Republic
of Armenia under the UN in New York, a document was spread about "Data
on refugees, displaced people and those engaged in military operations
in the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan." As the
document said, according to the 1989 census, in all the areas that now
are included in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh there were all in
all 415.6 thousand Azerbaijani people.
According to David Hakobyan, the Migration Agency of the Ministry of
Territorial Administration of Armenia, as a result of Azerbaijan's
policy of ethnic cleansing in 1988-1992, about 500,000 Armenian
refugees were displaced of the country. Around 360,000 of them arrived
in Armenia, and the rest left for other post-Soviet countries, as well
as the EU, the U.S, etc.
Source: Panorama.am
From: Baghdasarian