YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The International Organization of Migration implements a program of return according to the agreement signed with the Great Britain within the framework of which the families who voluntarily return from Great Britain are given 2.5 thousand pound sterlings (nearly 4.3 thousand USD). As Hrachya Kadsoyan, the Head of the IOM's Yerevan office, informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, a family has already returned to Armenia and 17 have expressed willingness to return within the framework of the program. IOM is an intergovernmental structure, to which 116 states participate. The aim of the organization, founded in 1951, is to secure the regular migration of refugees, displaced people and other migrants in all over the world. IOM has assisted more than 12 mln migrants in different countries up to this day.

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