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04YEREVAN2635
2004-12-09 06:10:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Yerevan
Cable title:  

GOAM GETS QUOTAS FROM QATAR FOR LABOR

Tags:  PGOV PREL ELAB QA AM KTIP 
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UNCLAS YEREVAN 002635 

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR G/TIP, DRL AND EUR/CACEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL ELAB QA AM KTIP
SUBJECT: GOAM GETS QUOTAS FROM QATAR FOR LABOR
MIGRATION


UNCLAS YEREVAN 002635

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR G/TIP, DRL AND EUR/CACEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL ELAB QA AM KTIP
SUBJECT: GOAM GETS QUOTAS FROM QATAR FOR LABOR
MIGRATION



1. The Department on Migration and Refugees (DMR) has
finished work with the Government of Qatar to create a
legal framework for Armenians working in Qatar. In the
agreement (scheduled to be signed in the near future)
the Government of Qatar has provided quotas for the
workers in the following fields: computer networks
administration, database administration, programming,
program analysis and nursing. According to the DMR,
Qatar will take care of all expenses, including those
for transportation. The DMR has already started
advertising this opportunity and collecting
applications.


2. Noting the large-scale illegal or semi-legal
migration of Armenian workers, and noting the problem
with trafficking exacerbated by labor migration
problems, the DMR is taking considerable pride in the
new agreement. Lyalya Aslanyan, DMR Deputy Head,
expressed the hope that this agreement with Qatar will
serve as a precedent for cooperation with other
countries, and will regularize labor migration. In
addition to this recent agreement, Ms. Aslanyan also
noted a draft law "On Organization of External Labor
Migration," which the DMR has been working on for more
than four years. The DMR has already presented this
draft to GOAM and expects that the National Assembly
will adopt it either by the end of 2004 or in early

2005.
EVANS