Monday, February 19 2024 16:16

ArmInfo.The Armenian authorities are going to implement a program to provide housing for forcibly displaced citizens from Artsakh, but one of the conditions for participation in the program must be obtaining Armenian citizenship, Armenian Premier Nikol Pashinyan stated at a meeting with Armenians in Munich.

Pashinyan recalled that the forcibly displaced Armenians of  Nagorno-Karabakh are today in Armenia under temporary protection,  which essentially constitutes refugee status.

"Our vision is that if they do not have a realistic desire or  opportunity to return to Nagorno-Karabakh...  More precisely, there  will be a desire, but if their perception of the security conditions  for return is not positive, then our policy is to they remained in  Armenia," he noted.

The Armenian prime minister said that the issue of educating Artsakh  children in schools has been largely resolved. Thus, as of December  31, 2023, 10 thousand people have already found work in Armenia.  "This is good, but not enough, because this is only about 30% of  people of working age. All pensioners receive pensions," Pashinyan  said.

As of January 26 this year. Temporary protection certificates issued  to both adult and minor internally displaced persons from Artsakh  were received by 42,809 Artsakh residents. According to the head of  the Migration and Citizenship Service of the Republic of Armenia,  Armen Kazaryan, as of this date, the number of citizens displaced  from Artskh and registered in the State Register of Population of the  Republic of Armenia approached 50 thousand. About 900 people applied  for RA citizenship.