28.11.2002 - Source: Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

Some 11,000 displaced people from Georgia, Abkhazia and Russia/Chechnya, who are almost exclusively ethnic Armenians, do not enjoy any official status ("8th European Country of Origin Information Seminar Vienna, 28 - 29 June 2002: Final Report - Armenia - co-funded by the EU Odysseus Programme") [#9877],  [ID 3340]

"Likewise, some 11,000 displaced people from Georgia, Abkhazia and Russia/Chechnya, who are almost exclusively ethnic Armenians and came during the Georgian/Abkhazian conflict and the two wars in the Russian Republic of Chechnya, do not enjoy any official status. The government is reluctant to grant them refugee status or even allow them access to the refugee status determination procedure (RSD). Yet, they are tolerated and some of them are even given citizenship. The Government has been working towards amending the existing Law on Refugees to give this category of displaced people a certain legal status, comparable to a humanitarian status."

Document(s): Arm-cois2002-rep.pdf