1062 refugee families from Azerbaijan housed

PanARMENIAN.Net - 1062 refugee families from Azerbaijan have been housed in Armenia since 2005, in the framework of a governmental program, according to the head of the RA Migration Service.



"$40-45 million is needed to resolve the refugees' problems," Gagik Yeganyan said. "The issue will be raised during a conference with representatives of international organizations to be held this year. 1270 families are still homeless."



20 years ago the Azerbaijani authorities instigated the Armenian pogroms in Baku. Some 400 Armenians were killed and 200 thousand were exiled in the period of January 13-19, 1990. The exact number of those killed was never determined, as no investigation was carried out into the crimes.



On January 13, a crowd numbering 50 thousand people divided into groups and started "cleaning" the city of Armenians. On January 17, the European Parliament called on EU Council of Foreign Ministers and European Council to protect Armenians and render assistance to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. On January 18, a group of U.S. Senators sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev to express concerns over the violence against the Armenian population in Azerbaijan and called for unification of Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia.