REASONS FOR LEAVING ARMENIA
Lragir.am
04 April 06
90 per cent of people leaving Armenia are economic migrants. According
to the news agency, this fact was given by Arne Vagen, the head of
the International Bureau of the Danish Council on Refugees during
the seminar on April 4.
Arne Vagen said from 800 thousand to one million people left Armenia
in 1989-2001, which is 26.6 per cent of the total population. According
to him, one of the factors of mass migration from Armenia is political
instability, natural disasters and the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.