WB and ADB to help Armenian government provide housing to residents from Artsakh
YEREVAN, October 8. /ARKA/. Issues of providing housing for refugees from Artsakh were discussed by Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan and World Bank Regional Director for the South Caucasus Rolande Pryce at a meeting held in Yerevan on Tuesday. WB Country Manager for Armenia Carolin Geginat was also present.
During the meeting, the interlocutors touched upon the work carried out by the government in the direction of meeting the housing needs of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and their employment, the press service of the Armenian government reported.
In this context, the Deputy Prime Minister noted the importance of principles jointly developed by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, to implement reforms in the field of housing construction in addition to financing the state support program for housing for families forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh.
An agreement was reached to continue cooperation in this area with the aim of finalizing the scope of the project in the near future.
The parties also exchanged ideas on possible cooperation in the field of irrigation and drinking water systems management, ongoing projects, and other priorities for bilateral cooperation.
About ethnic cleansing in Artsakh
On September 19-20, 2023, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale aggression against Artsakh using artillery, UAVs and combat aircraft. On September 28, following negotiations with the Azerbaijani side, Artsakh President Samvel Shahramanyan issued a decree that all state institutions of the republic would be dissolved and that the Republic of Artsakh would cease to exist from January 1, 2024.
Residents of Artsakh were forced to leave their homeland and moved to Armenia. According to the Armenian government, more than 115 thousand Artsakh residents have been registered. To assist them, the Armenian government is implementing a number of programs.
Azerbaijan officially confirms that it is holding only 33 Armenian prisoners of war and civilians, but Armenian human rights activists claim that there are another 80 Armenian prisoners. -0-
