AUTHORITIES VIOLATE SOME EUROPEAN CONVENTIONS WHEN CONSTRUCTING
NORTHERN AVENUE IN YEREVAN: LOCAL RESIDENTS STATE

YEREVAN, JULY 28. ARMINFO. Authorities have violated some provisions
of both Armenia’s Constitution and European conventions when
constructing the Northern Avenue in Yerevan, stated representatives of
“Victims of “state needs” public organization at today’s
press-conference.

They demanded to recognize invalid the government’s decisions on lands
as they contradict to country’s Constitution and provisions of the
European convention, as well as to consider objectively the cases
connected with the development of both Northern and Main
Avenues. “Some criminal “businessmen” and state officials suckled by
their bribes, under the ephemeral idea of state need possess the
property of hundreds of families redoubling social polarization of our
society”, the organization’s massage says.

Old buildings have been demolished with the aim to construct the
Northern Avenue and 600 residents lost their dwellings and were not
given an adequate compensation.