The Armenian authorities have adopted official policies to create obstacles for the Syrian-Armenians wishing to travel to their homeland amid the mounting crisis, the paper says commenting on the increased air fares on the Yerevan-Aleppo flights.

It has quoted Tevos Nersisyan, a spokesperson at the Ministry of Diaspora, as saying that they do not wish the country’s Armenian community to split apart.

“Officials from other government agencies have said the same non-officially. with different hints and wordings. That’s to say, the authorities are not, mildly speaking, enthusiastic about the plan to host the Syrian-Armenians. And this happens amid the increasing emigration from Armenia. It turns out the Diaspora-Armenians are important for us only for sending transfers, visiting Armenia for a couple of days to see Ararat and hire extremely expensive rooms in hotels belonging to officials and justify the existence of the Ministry of Diaspora,” comments the paper.