Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan pledged on Thursday to continue assistance to Armenians living in Syria. \"We as a state and as a people have provided support for our brothers and sisters, and will continue to do so regardless of where they live - in Armenia or Syria,\" he said at a session of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. Hayastan means Armenia in Armenian. The Armenian government has mulled a plan to build apartment buildings in three cities to house Armenians fleeing war-torn Syria. The number of returned Armenian nationals is estimated at 6,000. About 100,000 Armenians lived in Syria before the civil war broke out in 2011.