565 foreign citizens filed applications to Armenia's State Migration Service with a request to be offered sanctuary in RA.

“Requests of 145 applicants were met,” head of the service Gagik Yeganyan noted during a working consultation, adding that work carried out in 2012 was mainly based on 2012-2016 action plan with an aim to offer a solution to the problems of Syrian refugees.

83 out of 147 program provisions launched in 2012, with reform works completed last year.

In the framework of the program, 99 Syrian citizens were provided with temporary accommodation.