The breakdown Ghazaryan gave, as News.am printed it, is 38,695 adults and 14,344 minors. Two figures that sum to 53,039 by CAW’s arithmetic sit beside the 45,098 he gave for grants of citizenship. The sum is close to the number of applications, and the statement as printed does not explain the gap.
Anastas Israyelyan, president of the Reviving Artsakh association, told the same discussion that after the recent price rises the displaced cannot buy a house in Armenia with the housing certificates, and that most of them want to know the fate of the property they left behind and want a status that lets them raise it internationally.
Two figures that sum to 53,039 by CAW’s arithmetic sit beside the 45,098 he gave for grants of citizenship.
The status question was resolved and closed by the government’s decision in 2023, Ghazaryan answered. Property claims are for each person to decide individually, and the ministry has no general observations on them.
The citizenship count is the ministry’s at 13 October, three years after the exodus of September 2023.