NO APPLICATIONS FROM SYRIA FOR GETTING ASYLUM IN ARMENIA
ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, ARMENPRESS: The number of applicants for getting
asylum in Armenia from Syria has not grown. Ruzanna Petrosyan, chief
specialist of the asylum affairs department of the State Migration
Service affiliated to the Ministry of Territorial Administration,
told Armenpress that there is no information to what countries the
representatives of the Armenian community of Syria have applied to get
asylum. “We are quite surprised for not receiving any applications
from Syria. We suppose that people will apply for getting asylum as
the clashes will cause flows,” Petrosyan said.
She said in case of Iraq when pressures against Christians started,
Armenians started abandoning that country. The absence of the
applications shows that the situation in Syria is not so dangerous,
for Armenians in particular.
As a result of domestic clashes in Syria, three people have applied
for getting asylum in Armenia in 2011. Their applications have been
satisfied.
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