In June of 2010, the United Nations Yerevan Office allocated $1milion to build residential housing for Armenian refugees. The building, with its twenty apartments, was constructed in the village of Kasakh, just one kilometer outside Yerevan.

The Japanese government kicked-in $700,000 of the above figure. It will soon be one year that the doors to the building were officially opened

But the building remains void of residents and it isn’t clear when the refugees will move in.

It turns out that the building is unsafe for habitation. The walls are cracking and the structure doesn’t meet seismic standards.

No one wants to assume responsibility for these defects – not the Armenian government, the UN Yerevan Office, nor the builders.

UN Resident Coordinator  Ms. Dafina Gercheva, at various events in the past, has spoken of lofty ideals when it comes to assisting those in need.

But this is scant consolation to the refugees, forcibly evicted from their native homes, who have been getting by in temporary housing for the past twenty years.

The refuges continue to wait while these officials get their act together.