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ARMENIA IS READY TO RECEIVE ASSYRIAN REFUGEES, IF THEY REACH THE BORDER
16:09, 27 February, 2015
YEREVAN, 27 FEBRUARY, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian authorities immediately
responded to the call of the Assyrian community to receive the Assyrian
refugees having been displaced from their indigenous territories in
Syria. In response to the alarm that was sounded during a February 27
press conference, Head of the State Migration Service of the Ministry
of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of the Republic
of Armenia Gagik Yeganyan told "Armenpress" that the Republic of
Armenia is committed by law to protect persons subject to persecutions,
irrespective of gender and national belonging, granting them the right
to legal residency, certain social and cultural rights and not to
return to their country of origin. "The problem is that those people
have to reach Armenia in some way so that they can present their
problems to the Armenian authorities. They have to write an appeal
at the border, after which the process prescribed by law begins,"
Yeganyan added.
Representative of the Assyrian community of Armenia Razmik Khosroev
called on the Government of the Republic of Armenia to take an adequate
decision and allow the Assyrians having been displaced from their
homes in Syria by ISIS to freely enter Armenia. Professor of the
University of Chicago, expert on genocide studies Anahit Khosroeva
mentioned that on the night of February 22, ISIS attacked nearly 32
Assyrian-populated villages along Khabur River in Syria, after which
nearly 1,200 Assyrian families became refugees.
16:09, 27 February, 2015
YEREVAN, 27 FEBRUARY, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian authorities immediately
responded to the call of the Assyrian community to receive the Assyrian
refugees having been displaced from their indigenous territories in
Syria. In response to the alarm that was sounded during a February 27
press conference, Head of the State Migration Service of the Ministry
of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of the Republic
of Armenia Gagik Yeganyan told "Armenpress" that the Republic of
Armenia is committed by law to protect persons subject to persecutions,
irrespective of gender and national belonging, granting them the right
to legal residency, certain social and cultural rights and not to
return to their country of origin. "The problem is that those people
have to reach Armenia in some way so that they can present their
problems to the Armenian authorities. They have to write an appeal
at the border, after which the process prescribed by law begins,"
Yeganyan added.
Representative of the Assyrian community of Armenia Razmik Khosroev
called on the Government of the Republic of Armenia to take an adequate
decision and allow the Assyrians having been displaced from their
homes in Syria by ISIS to freely enter Armenia. Professor of the
University of Chicago, expert on genocide studies Anahit Khosroeva
mentioned that on the night of February 22, ISIS attacked nearly 32
Assyrian-populated villages along Khabur River in Syria, after which
nearly 1,200 Assyrian families became refugees.