The number of Armenian citizens seeking asylum in developed countries has been on the rise in the past two years, according to a UN refugee agency.
In a recently published report, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says more than 11,000 citizens of Armenia have asked the governments of wealthy nations in the West to grant them asylum during the period in question.
Thus, according to the report, the number of applications for asylum from Armenians in France doubled in 2011 to more than 3,600 as compared to the previous year's figure, making citizens of Armenia the third largest group of asylum seekers in France after citizens of Russia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which, by contrast, have populations of around 140 million and 70 million, respectively.
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