ARMENIAN REFUGEE FAMILIES WILL BE OFFERED SOLUTIONS – YEREVAN MAYOR

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April 20 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan held a meeting on Wednesday
with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Representative Damtew
Dessalegne.

At present, 1,300 refugees living in Yerevan hostels need housing.

The Yerevan Mayor informed UNHCR representative of a social housing
program being discussed now. Under the program, refugee families will
be offered solutions, the Yerevan city hall told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Damtew Dessalegne said that the problem can be more effectively
resolved in cooperation with the UNHCR.

The sides also discussed alternative ways of resolving the housing
problem.

From: A. Papazian