Problems of internally displaced persons from Azerbaijan have not  been solved in global aspect - MP

ArmInfo."For about three decades the problems of the forcibly displaced persons from  Azerbaijan have not been solved in our country in global aspect," MP of the NA Civil Contract Faction Vilen Gabrielyan said at the working discussion of a group of representatives of the NGOs being engaged  with the refugees on June 19.

As the RA NA reports, according to the dMP, the fact is that the RA  authorities mainly solved some social problems of the refugees on  time, not being engaged with their political, legal and civil rights  issues, which in fact did not give an opportunity to officially raise  the issues of the forcibly displaced persons and present them in  comprehensive format.

It was noted that the main problems regarding the refugees were  ignored.  The representatives of the NGOs voiced the multifaceted  problems. It was proposed to solve the problems in the institutional  way.  Vilen Gabrielyan stressed the necessity of the state support.  He considered important the elaboration of the new strategy and  tactics on the forcibly displaced persons, setting the sequence of  distinct steps.

The state-non-governmental organizations partnership was also  emphasized.  In 1988-1992, more than half a million Armenians were  forcibly displaced from Azerbaijan, 360.000 out of them found asylum  in the Republic of Armenia. According to the implemented registration  in 1997, the number of the refugees being resided in the country was  about 310.000 people. In the further years, re-registration of the  forcibly displaced persons from Azerbaijan was not carried out.

In 1999, the RA law on Refugees, by which the bases of giving status  to the refugees, their legal and social protection guarantees were  established, was adopted, the source notes.