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EU ASSISTS IN ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES' MIGRATION PREVENTION EFFORTS
TERT.AM
12:51 ~U 27.03.13
Armenia's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the People in Need
organization on Tuesday signed a cooperation declaration as part of
the efforts to continue the Target Initiative for Armenia project.
According to the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper, the organization
allocated ~@1 million to Armenia in an effort to prevent migration
from the country.
Migration prevention is said to be one the four key components of
the initiative. It is targeted at people preparing to leave Armenia
forever. The proposed plan envisages social and psychological services,
as well as job offers promising a sustainable salary.
Official data posted on the EU Delegation to Armenia's website suggest
that the Union has provided over 500 million Euros to the country
since 1992.
European Union or Eurasian Union? Addressing this dilemma that
has acquired a special urgency for Armenia in the recent period,
Yerjanik Abgaryan of the Armenian Pan-National Movement has left
the following comment in Facebook: "Let us now judge who Armenia's
friends and enemies are. The European Union has allocated money for
assisting people seeking migration opportunities ... while Russia -
in an attempt to assist those people - organizes free Russian language
classes in almost all the regions and the capital of Armenia to allure
the Armenians in need into its Siberia repopulation plans," he said.
Speaking to Tert.am, President of the European Integration NGO Karen
Bekaryan said it isn't correct to use such characterizations to
describe a foreign organization's activities in a country.
"It is high time to realize that any state dealing with us pursues
its own interests. And wherever [those interests] match with ours,
the relations deepen and develop. The EU and Russia are no exceptions
in this case," he said, noting that the EU Association Agreement
and the Free and Comprehensive Trade Area talks have helped increase
assistance to Armenia over the recent period.
But despite the continuing efforts, many Armenian migrants living in
camps are said to be ill-disposed to the repatriation program. An
Armenian citizen is even reported to have committed suicide in a
Belgian camp.
The same reports suggest that the EU is strictly interested in
repatriating those people and to that effect even offers money to
the illegal migrants.
Bekaryan attributed such efforts to the logic behind illegal
migration concept. "Note, for example, that the preparation of the
Visa Facilitation Agreement always went parallel with the problems
stemming from the Readmission Agreement. To speak more plainly, the
issue is this: we are ready to facilitate the entry provided that you,
as a partner, are willing to have your contribution to combatting
illegal [migration]," he explained.
TERT.AM
12:51 ~U 27.03.13
Armenia's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the People in Need
organization on Tuesday signed a cooperation declaration as part of
the efforts to continue the Target Initiative for Armenia project.
According to the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper, the organization
allocated ~@1 million to Armenia in an effort to prevent migration
from the country.
Migration prevention is said to be one the four key components of
the initiative. It is targeted at people preparing to leave Armenia
forever. The proposed plan envisages social and psychological services,
as well as job offers promising a sustainable salary.
Official data posted on the EU Delegation to Armenia's website suggest
that the Union has provided over 500 million Euros to the country
since 1992.
European Union or Eurasian Union? Addressing this dilemma that
has acquired a special urgency for Armenia in the recent period,
Yerjanik Abgaryan of the Armenian Pan-National Movement has left
the following comment in Facebook: "Let us now judge who Armenia's
friends and enemies are. The European Union has allocated money for
assisting people seeking migration opportunities ... while Russia -
in an attempt to assist those people - organizes free Russian language
classes in almost all the regions and the capital of Armenia to allure
the Armenians in need into its Siberia repopulation plans," he said.
Speaking to Tert.am, President of the European Integration NGO Karen
Bekaryan said it isn't correct to use such characterizations to
describe a foreign organization's activities in a country.
"It is high time to realize that any state dealing with us pursues
its own interests. And wherever [those interests] match with ours,
the relations deepen and develop. The EU and Russia are no exceptions
in this case," he said, noting that the EU Association Agreement
and the Free and Comprehensive Trade Area talks have helped increase
assistance to Armenia over the recent period.
But despite the continuing efforts, many Armenian migrants living in
camps are said to be ill-disposed to the repatriation program. An
Armenian citizen is even reported to have committed suicide in a
Belgian camp.
The same reports suggest that the EU is strictly interested in
repatriating those people and to that effect even offers money to
the illegal migrants.
Bekaryan attributed such efforts to the logic behind illegal
migration concept. "Note, for example, that the preparation of the
Visa Facilitation Agreement always went parallel with the problems
stemming from the Readmission Agreement. To speak more plainly, the
issue is this: we are ready to facilitate the entry provided that you,
as a partner, are willing to have your contribution to combatting
illegal [migration]," he explained.