‘Armenia on verge of demographic catastrophe"

The growth of migration rates in Armenia will lead the country to the demographic catastrophe, Expert Samir , when commenting on the statement of Armenia’s former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who named the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the closed border with Turkey as the main reasons for the increasing pace of migration from Armenia.
 
Hamidov said the both reasons named by Ter-Petrosyan are linked with each other. "Armenia was blockaded due to the occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory. Therefore, Armenian as a country-occupier faced a similar attitude from the region and the world community. Armenia is left out of a number of regional projects in view of certain objective reasons. Thus, the country population faced a serious crisis, due to which the economic situation in Armenia is deteriorating day by day,”  he noted.
 
Because of the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and lack of relationships with regional countries on the basis of international legal norms, Armenia’s social situation  is not fully developed.
 
"This will lead to increasing of the number of those leaving the country and the Armenian government will continue to face the problem of migration. Ultimately, this will lead to a demographic catastrophe of Armenia,” Hamidov stated.


/Day.Az/