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Armenian parliamentary minority demands discussion of growing out-emigration
YEREVAN, September 8. / ARKA /. Armenia's parliamentary minority,
represented by the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Heritage and the Armenian National
Congress (ANC), has demanded today that the legislator discuss the
problem of increasing out-emigration.
The demand was voiced by Aram Manukyan, the secretary of the ANC
faction. He said the parliamentary minority has looked deep into a
series of studies on Armenia's demography conducted by international
organizations and wants their findings to become available both to
parliamentarians and the public at large.
Citing official statistics, Manukyan said that over 210,000 Armenian
citizens left their country forever from 2008 to 2013. Manukyan asked
parliament speaker Galust Sahakyan to choose a format to discuss the
challenge.
Ruben Hakobyan, the head of the Heritage faction, added that
representatives of the opposition toured the regions of the country to
have a better idea with the out emigration. He stressed that
emigration is not linked solely to the presence of the Diaspora and
the Karabakh conflict.
"There is a whole range of problems that will show up in case of an
honest discussion. The dismal results are obvious: where a school a
few years ago had 30 first-graders, now it has only one,' he added.
According to official data, the population of Armenia at the beginning
of 2014 decreased by 9,500 compared with the beginning of the previous
year. On January 1, it had a little over 3 million of permanent
population, including 1.9 million of urban and 1.1 million of rural
population. -0-
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YEREVAN, September 8. / ARKA /. Armenia's parliamentary minority,
represented by the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Heritage and the Armenian National
Congress (ANC), has demanded today that the legislator discuss the
problem of increasing out-emigration.
The demand was voiced by Aram Manukyan, the secretary of the ANC
faction. He said the parliamentary minority has looked deep into a
series of studies on Armenia's demography conducted by international
organizations and wants their findings to become available both to
parliamentarians and the public at large.
Citing official statistics, Manukyan said that over 210,000 Armenian
citizens left their country forever from 2008 to 2013. Manukyan asked
parliament speaker Galust Sahakyan to choose a format to discuss the
challenge.
Ruben Hakobyan, the head of the Heritage faction, added that
representatives of the opposition toured the regions of the country to
have a better idea with the out emigration. He stressed that
emigration is not linked solely to the presence of the Diaspora and
the Karabakh conflict.
"There is a whole range of problems that will show up in case of an
honest discussion. The dismal results are obvious: where a school a
few years ago had 30 first-graders, now it has only one,' he added.
According to official data, the population of Armenia at the beginning
of 2014 decreased by 9,500 compared with the beginning of the previous
year. On January 1, it had a little over 3 million of permanent
population, including 1.9 million of urban and 1.1 million of rural
population. -0-
http://arka.am/en/news/society/armenian_parliamentary_minority_demands_discussion _of_growing_out_emigration_/#sthash.h5HozFYJ.dpuf