RA Security Council Secretary: The issue of emigration is among the  priorities of the security sector of Armenia

ArmInfo. The issue of  emigration is among the priorities of the security sphere of Armenia.  The Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan  stated this on July 26 at a press conference in Yerevan.

According to him, the government pays special attention to this  issue, since emigration has a direct impact on the security of  Armenia, first of all it affects the army. "The Prime Minister often  raises this issue.  However, this problem is complex and  multifaceted, we must also focus on fertility stimulation and a  number of other key aspects of this problem. This issue is at the  center of our attention," said the RA Security Council secretary.

At the same time, he assured that in the past and this year, there  was a positive trend in this issue, as evidenced by statistical data,  according to which, the outflow of the population from Armenia in the  current year compared to the figures for the same period of 2015  decreased by 35%.

It should be noted that on June 23, the Economy Times reported that  according to a study by the Gaidar Economic Policy Institute, in the  first months (January-April) of 2019 the number of migrants from  Armenia to Russia increased sharply, reaching 12.8 thousand people,  against 4.9 thousand people in the year 2018.

The Migration Service of Armenia expressed doubt about the accuracy  of the data published by the Gaidar Institute about a sharp increase  in the number of Armenian migrants in the Russian Federation,  publishing its statistics. From the official data it follows that the  rate of migration from Armenia has noticeably decreased. According to  the data of the Migration Service of Armenia, compared to the first  half of 2015, in the same period of 2019, the rate of migration from  Armenia decreased 32 times.

The infographic provided by the government on its official Facebook  page indicates that in 2015 the negative migration balance was minus  75,464 people, in 2016 - 66,629, in 2017 - 37,625, in 2018 - 6,110,  and in the first half of 2019 - 2.334.

In October 2018, Armen Ghazaryan, Head of the Migration Service of  the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development, reported  that in the first half of 2018, the migration balance was minus 5,204  people against minus 30? 853 people during the same period of 2017.