While different countries of the world are evacuating their citizens from Egypt the Armenian government only limits itself by posting warnings to the Armenian citizens, who are currently in Egypt. Yesterday, the spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Tigran Balayan said that the Armenian Embassy in Egypt made a statement, by which it advises the Armenian citizens to use regular flights to return to Armenia because the airport in Cairo already functions on a normal basis. Currently in Sharm el Sheikh and Hurgada resorts there are 164 Armenians (they will return to Armenia tonight by a charter flight by the TEZ Tour airplane) and 65 others, the majority of who are dual citizens. They were registered in Egypt in the Armenian Embassy. Yesterday one Armenian family has returned to Yerevan. According to the Foreign Affairs Minister another 40 Armenians expressed an intention to return home and were enrolled in the Armenian embassy. But Armenia doesn’t have an official decision to evacuate its citizens from Cairo the embassy advised them to return to Armenia at their own expense. “Armenians are far from the protests and are still safe in their homes,” yesterday told our newspaper a resident of Cairo of Armenian descent Araxi Tumayants. According to her a number of Armenian stores were robbed and in certain places there is a crisis of food. In the evening hours the Armenian men and you men go out to the streets to protect their homes from the robbers. Many of the Armenians have already left their homes. Some went to Armenia and others to the US. Tumayants also mentioned that the most of Armenians live in the vicinity of Tahrir square, where the demonstrations proceed. It’s about 9 kilometers far from the epicenter of demonstrations. Here we have one of the two Armenian schools and the second one, the Galstyan school, is on Tahrir square. “So all the current demonstrations are in front of Galstyan school,” she said. Let us remember that in Egypt we have an 8000-8500 Armenian community. Another resident of Cairo Harutyun Palyan told us in a phone conversation that the situation is comparably calmer than on the first days of collision. And according to the professor of the American University in Cairo Anzhela Harutyunyan, Armenians are currently far from danger. The quarter, named Maadi, where most of the Armenians live, is currently under the control of the armed forces of the country and is surrounded by barbwires. Yesterday as of 7p.m. according to the data of the Egyptian media as a result of collisions in Cairo 4-5000 people were injured and 60-70 people were found dead. Let us remember that the opposition of Egypt has declared February 4th the last day of Mubarak.
