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Armenia Issues - 2024


SOURCE: 2024 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

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Disputes - international

Armenia-Azerbaijan: tensions existed for years over Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian military occupation of surrounding lands in Azerbaijan; Azerbaijan seized part of the enclave during six weeks of fighting in 2020 and the remainder in a short conflict in September 2023; Baku and Yerevan have since had preliminary discussions on a peace treaty, the demarcation of borders, and full normalization of relations but bi-lateral tensions remain

Armenia-Georgia: Georgians restrict Armenian access into Samtse-Javakheti ethnic Armenian areas; Armenia has made no claims to the region

Armenia-Turkey: as of 2023, Turkey and Armenia were discussing normalizing relations

Refugees and internally displaced persons

refugees (country of origin): 27,929 (Azerbaijan) (mid-year 2022)

IDPs: 8,400 (2022)

stateless persons: 816 (2022)

Illicit drugs

a transit country for illicit drugs with its location between source countries Afghanistan and Iran and the markets of Europe and Russia.

NOTE: The information regarding Armenia on this page is re-published from the 2024 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Armenia 2024 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Armenia 2024 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.

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