Gagik Yeganyan: there is no “threatening” emigration from Armenia May 23, 2011 - 13:41 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of migration agency at the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration, Gagik Yeganyan, believes that there is no threatening emigration from Armenia. “Without mentioning any sources, some media outlets keep reporting that emigration is growing every year and becomes threatening,” he told journalists on May 23. Yegonyan informed that in 2008, 2009 and 2010 negative migration balance totaled 23059, 24978 and 28960 respectively. “One may not speak about new wave of emigration, taking into consideration that in 1992-1994 yearly net migration balance totaled 120-220 thousand migrants, and in 1995-2001 it amounted to about 60 thousand migrants,” he mentioned. The head of migration service called on media to cooperate with the agency and to publish real figures instead of unverified information. Mentioning the complications of emigrants calculation, he said that one can never find out the exact number of emigrants from the negative migration balance. Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Partner news | Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |