39% of Armenian citizens seeking refuge status apply to France, followed by Germany (25%), Belgium (8%), Sweden (6%) and Austria (5%).
But local civic groups working with migrants pressured the French government to review its decision. As a result, Armenia and Turkey were removed from the list in July of 2010.
When I talked to Arev Samvelyan, RA Deputy Minister of Culture, he said that UNESCO officials not only found any mention of Armenian crosses in Turkey and Azerbaijan objectionable but references to crosses in Karabakh as well.
On March 2, in Paris, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to France, Elchin Amirbayov, said that when it comes to foreign affairs the Karabakh issue is high on Baku’s list.
France reclassifies Armenia as "unsafe"
Applications rejected, Armenians wind up homeless, living on streets Two Armenian families who have been living on the streets for the past two months in the small French community of Cholet have become the talk of the town. At the end ...
“I expect they’ll give us good stuff tomorrow. It’s the holidays,” said a woman waiting in line to another, elderly lady. They were conversing in Armenian. People were waiting in line outside Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris for their daily food ...
Bird-like lettering in a group of articles on display for sale in a Parisian pharmacy caught my eye and I went to take a closer look. The item in question was named « Papier d’Arménie ».
A familiar melody reached my ears amidst the din reverberating in one of the busy train stations in Paris. The refrain even caught the attention of the otherwise nonchalant passersby hurrying to wherever they were going.
Seta Grigoryan, Hetq’s correspondent in Paris spoke with a cross-section of French-Armenians regarding recent developments in Armenian-Turkish relations. Below are excerpts of the interviews. Sahag Sukiasian (Historian; Director of “Maison Arménienne” ...
I don’t know. Must I pass all this down to my kids or not ? I don’t know. Should I continue to remain Armenian or just get on with life?
According to the Ministry of Nature Protection’s regional office in Kotayk we were informed that the Garni Municipality has been thrice fined for 150,000 drams ($500) for the waste violations. On the day of our visit to Garni heaps of garbage could be ...
Only a few rooms in the three-story building are actually inhabited, the rest are infested with vermin. Residents say that during the summer months they have frogs and snakes as neighbors
While in the previous year there were 17 communities with payroll deficits, by the end of 2007 there were only 4 rural communities similarly in the red - Goght, Sevaberd, Kotayk and Jrarat.
In the 1980s, the government made the decision to relocate all the residents on the left bank of the Hrazdan River below the village of Kaghsi and resettle them in the village's Upper District.
With supplemental financial assistance from the government 43 projects in 36 communities in the Kotayk Marze are being implemented.