ArmInfo. Five Azerbaijani citizens applied for asylum in Armenia in the first half of 2017. This was announced by the head of the department Gagik Yeganyan at a meeting with journalists at the Migration Service of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development of Armenia on December 25.
He informed that in one case it is a family of the correspondent of the Tolyshi Sado newspaper in Azerbaijan, the participant of the Talysh liberation movement Shakhin Mirzoyev from four people. "Today the Mirzoyev family left Armenia, having left with the assistance of the United Nations in a third country, the spouse Mirzoyeva, who was ill with cancer, died and was buried in Armenia, in the second case, she is an Azerbaijani citizen who is still in the territory of Armenia," said Yeganyan, silent about the other three cases.