Date:
Thu, 31/03/2016 - 10:41
Article Title:
Refugee-Hosting Country: Yerevan seeks international aid for Syrian Armenians
“About 20,000 refugees from Syria have sought protection in Armenia, on per capita basis making our country the third largest recipient of Syrian refugees in Europe. This is a considerable number for a country of just 3 million, which in the recent past has already sheltered hundreds of thousands fleeing from Azerbaijan,” Nalbandian said at a ministerial conference in Geneva organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).