YEREVAN PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE INTENDS TO EVICT PEOPLE ON THE EXAMPLE OF DALMA GARDENS

ArmInfo News, Armenia
Sept 19 2005

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 19. ARMINFO. “Yerevan Prosecutor’s Office intends
to evict 1,200 families settled in the area of 40 ha near the Yerevan
Zoo in 1960,” a lawyer of the public organization of the Armenian
Human Rights Center after A.Sakharov Mary Khachatryan told ARMINFO.

The people call the given populated area Nork Berdadzor and
Kakavadzor. However, this are has no legal status. Yerevan Municipality
has rejected all the applications of the residents for privatization or
legalization of the buildings erected there in the period of 1995-2003,
“to avoid problems in case of future purpose-oriented construction.”At
the same time, the Municipality calls this are “the territory of
gardeners of Nor Nork,” it is not a juridical organization, Mary
Khachatryan says.

The territory is not the property of the CJSC “Armles”(“Armforest”)
of the Agricultural Ministry. Neither it has been included in the
register. Nevertheless, “Armles” Director Martun Matevosyan addressed
a letter to the lawyer Mary Khachatryan wherein he informed that
the territory was recognized the property of “Armless”. However,
he failed to present any document confirming the property.

It should be noted that the divisions of the State Realty Register
were to register the buildings at least on August 22. However, it was
impossible for lack of the legal status of there buildings. “Yerevan
Prosecutor’s Office also applied to the Avan Community First Instance
Court against the illegal builfdings in Berdadzor and Kakavadzor.

However, the third party, CJSC “Armless,” is not summoned,” Khahcatryan
says.