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

Armenia hosts an officially estimated number of 13,000 IDPs from Nagorno Karabakh; they are not given refugee 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 3378]

"In addition to refugees from Azerbaijan proper, Armenia hosts an officially estimated number of 13,000 displaced people from Nagorno Karabakh. They are not given refugee status, and, as far as the government is concerned, they are encouraged to go back to Karabakh. On the other hand, they are not citizens of Armenia either but are issued Armenian passports with different serial numbers that are in practice indistinguishable from regular Armenian passports."

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