The first group of more than 100 ethnic Armenian children from crisis-hit Syria were flown to Armenia on Thursday for summer holidays organized by the Armenian government.
The 119 schoolchildren from Damascus were greeted with applause by government officials and local teenagers at Yerevan's Zvartnots airport where they arrived on a special flight sponsored by an Armenian commercial bank. They will spend the next two weeks at a children's summer camp in the central Armenian resort of Hankavan.
For Gegham Suvalian, a 12-year-old boy, it was the first-ever trip to Armenia. "The situation [in Damascus] is not good," he told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am). "Bad people have ruined much of Damascus."
Armenian News
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