YEREVAN. – The delegation of Armenia will return from Syria on Saturday, Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian informed at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting.

As per Nalbandian, on Wednesday, the aforementioned delegation headed from Latakia to Syrian capital city Damascus, where it will hold talks on Thursday.

In turn, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan noted that Armenia is taking the necessary steps to ease the situation of the displaced Armenians in Syria.

“We should not leave the impression that we are apathetic toward the fate of our compatriots; we need to prove the opposite to the public,” the PM said.

In the early morning on March 21, armed militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra Islamic terrorist group infiltrated into northern Syria’s Latakia Governorate, which is predominantly inhabited by Armenians and Alawites, from four directions. Two large groups of terrorists had launched the attack from Turkey. About 600 Kessab-Armenian families are currently sheltered in Latakia city. On March 23, Turkish fighter planes downed a Syrian military aircraft that was conducting a mission against the Islamic terrorists in Kessab. On Monday, a group of Armenia parliament members headed to Syria to assess the situation.