The Hayots Ashkharh held an interview with Head of the RA Migration Service Gagik Yeganyan. Commenting on media reports on a larger-sale emigration from Armenia, he pointed out that the agency has no such information.

As regards the reports that 61,000 people have emigrated from Armenia over the recent ten months Yeganyan asked: “What does it mean ‘gone never to return’? Who can say if an individual returns or not?”

“Yes, a 21.1% increase in the number of people leaving and returning to Armenia has been registered this year. However, it is not an emigration index, but unfavorable passenger traffic. The situation will change by the end of this year, when labor migrants return home,” he said.