CITIZENS DO NOT TRUST THE MUNICIPALITY

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11-07-2005

For the last two weeks there have been almost no applications from the
citizens to the Yerevan municipality to legalize their illegal
buildings. There are even a number of decisions about legalization
which remain in the municipality as their owners do not come to take
them. {BR}

Today the Yerevan mayor chief advisor Grigor Melqumyan expressed his
concern about it. The municipality has established the deadline of
legalizing illegal buildings till August 22. Mr. Melqumyan excludes
the possibility of the citizens not applying to them because of the
corruptedness of officials, as mentioned by the
journalists. Nevertheless, he could not give a reason for this
phenomenon.

During 2003-2005 there have been 43560 applications of legalization of
illegal buildings. According to Mr. Melqumyan, 33 000 have been
legalized.