Baku Today, Azerbaijan
Aug 14 2004
About 20,000 Armenians live in Azerbaijan
The State Statistics Committee (SSC) will hold the next census in
2009, the committee chairman Arif Valiyev told a news conference on
Friday.
Valiyev said that as of July 1, 2004, the population in Azerbaijan
made up 8.300 million people. Noting that 657 officially registered
Armenians live in Azerbaijan according to the census of 1999, the SSC
chairman said that the figure is about 20,000.
Valiyev underlined that Armenians were not requested to produce
documents indicating their nationalities during the 1999 census in
accordance with the UN recommendations.