ArmInfo. From September 25, 2023 to May 20, 2024, 17,269 forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh left Armenia, of which 7,138 returned to the RA. The National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia states in response to an ArmInfo request.
"From September 25, 2023 to May 20, 2024, 17,269 persons forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh left the Republic of Armenia by air and land, of which 7,138 returned", the NSS response says.
The exodus of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh) began on September 24, 2023. This was preceded by a months-long blockade of Artsakh by Azerbaijan (since December 12, 2022) and the hostilities launched by Azerbaijan on September 19, 2023, which caused an acute humanitarian crisis in the region. On September 20, the NKR authorities agreed to negotiations and the disarmament of the NKR Defense Army. On September 28, NKR President Samvel Shahramanyan signed a decree on the termination of the existence of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) from January 1, 2024 and the dissolution of all state institutions. The population of Nagorno-Karabakh, including those outside the republic, after the entry into force of this Decree, was ordered to familiarize themselves with the conditions of reintegration presented by the Republic of Azerbaijan, to subsequently make an independent and individual decision on the possibility of staying (returning) to Nagorno-Karabakh. On October 19, 2022, at a cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that more than 3,000 forcibly displaced refugees from Artsakh had left Armenia. Then he had to refute several times rumors about a mass outflow of forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia. "There are no emigration phenomena, because in the first days there was a rather alarming number of people leaving, but we assumed that in most cases people leave simply at the invitation of relatives, we see that the situation has stabilized," Pashinyan said on May 23, 2023 at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Armenia. And on May 7 of this year, the Prime Minister stated that the information that about 16 thousand citizens of Artsakh, forcibly displaced to Armenia, left the Republic of Armenia does not correspond to reality. Meanwhile, social networks point to the figure of 25,000 back in December last year, and before that, in October, former State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan announced that 10 thousand Artsakh residents had left Armenia. According to the Migration and Citizenship Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, as of January 2024, 115 thousand citizens forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh were registered.
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