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Armenian Migration Service: "Some of Armenians evacuated from Lebanon will be sent to Nagorno Karabakh"

27 July 2006 [14:26] - TODAY.AZ
Armenia is planning to send its citizens evacuated from Lebanon to Nagorno Karabakh.

According to APA, so far 550 persons have been evacuated from Lebanon and 54 from Israel to Armenia.

"Aleppo-Yerevan charter plans to take 51 more foreign nationals today. These nationals applied to Armenian migration service to grant them the status of "person in need of temporary refuge."

The migration service representative told journalists that the number of people evacuated to Armenia form Lebanon increases day by day, and the government faces problems to settle them.

"Most of these persons have no relatives in Armenia. The government has discussed providing first aid to the evacuated persons. I don't rule out sending some of the evacuated Armenians to Nagorno Karabakh," the service representative said.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Taghizadeh told that such reports released by Armenian media aim at provocation.

"The Foreign Ministry is taking serious control of this issue. If there is any settlement in the occupied Azerbaijani lands, this issue will be put to the discussion of the international community," the spokesman underlined.

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