Yerevan, July 23, ARMENPRESS: The representatives of the opposing “Syrian free army” have announced their intention of capturing the city of Aleppo. As “Armenpress” reports, it was mentioned by the “Syrian free army’s” Colonel Abdel Jabar Al-Okaydi in the statement posted on YouTube. He also stressed that national and religious minorities living in Aleppo should not have any concerns in those activities.

“Armenian or Assyrian, Kurdish or Druze, the Syrian army will protect everybody”, stated the Syrian Colonel. To his word the Syrian opposition is also going to protect the Assad kinsfolk.

Meanwhile, the situation in Aleppo is still quiet. In the conversation with “Armenpress” the representative of the Armenian community in Syria Nazaret Elmajyan noted that the situation is still being controlled by the forces loyal to Assad. Problems are mainly in three districts-Salah El-Din, Alsakhur and Al-Haydaria”, mentioned Elmajyan.

Aleppo is one of the most populated with Armenians cities, while in the mentioned districts the Armenians are not particularly in a large number.

According to the Syrian Human Rights Organization data 17 thousand 192 people died because of the Syrian 16 months ongoing clashes. The Arab media reports that among the dead11 thousand 897 were peaceful civilians, and 4348 were security officers. Among the victims there were 7 Armenians, 2 of which were the Syrian Army militaries. The Syrian riots make the Syrians leave the country appearing in other countries as refugees. Recently the Armenian community representatives also leave the country. The refugee status or asylum applications from Syria are considered in an accelerated procedure, at least ten days.

The head of the State Migration Service Gagik Eganyan in response to the question raised by “Armenpress” stated that 6 families with 16 members applied Armenia for an asylum with a refugee status.

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