A1 Plus | 18:27:27 | 24-09-2004 | Social |

HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATED

One of international organisations has sent 650 tons wheat seeds as
assistance to the republic’s six regions stricken by frost in 2002 and 2003.

It became known recently that 2,100 kg of that amount were distributed
wrongly.

Journalists without borders organisation discussed that incident Friday.

The thing is that Lyudvig Khlghatyan, the headman of Armavir region’s
Dimitrov village, pocketed the aid using his levers.

A suit was filed against him. Villagers say wrongdoer Khlghatyan is backed
by more senior officials. In particular, territorial regulation an
industrial infrastructures minister Hovik Abrahamyan had been named very
often in this connection.

Assyrians make the village population’s 30 percent. That’s why the villagers
view the incident as ethnic minorities’ rights discrimination. The minister’
s deputy Gagik Aslanyan says his chief can’t tolerate persons like Hovik
Abrahamyan.

He promised that things will be put right.

Armenian PM’s adviser on ethnic minorities issues Hranush Kharatyan says
minority tinge will help to solve the problem. If the village was completely
Armenian, there would be less chances for solving the issue through court.