EDGES OF MUTUAL AGREEMENT OUTLINED AMONG KOZERN INHABITANTS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF YEREVAN MAYOR’S OFFICE

Noyan Tapan
Apr 13 2006

YEREVAN, APRIL 13, NOYAN TAPAN. Inhabitants of the Kozern district of
Yerevan and officials of the Yerevan Mayor’s Office agreed to start
works in the district from April 13 in the direction of defining
the factual number of the district inhabitants, registration of
those left without registration and measurement of their private
property. Anahit Poghosian, an inhabitant of the district participated
in the meeting held in the RA President’s staff office, among the
inhabitants and representatives of the Mayor’s Office, informed
the Noyan Tapan correspondent about this. According to her, it was
decided to meet once in every ten days and discuss done works only
at the end of which the issue of privatization of the property will
be discussed. The process may last for 2-3 months. The inhabitants
of the Kozern district organized an action of complaint on April 12,
in front of the RA President’s residence. They asked the President
to take under his personal control and solve the issue of the
district inhabitants. The inhabitants are not against sale of the
territory, they simply demands to re-establish their violated right of
property. According to them, since still 1990s, they have continuously
appealed for privatization of the territory occupied by them. But
they were refused: with a reasoning that it is a zone for sale, is
not subject to privatization, though the territory was recognized a
zone for sale by the RA Government’s decision only in 2004. According
to the inhabitants, the Prime Minister sent a message to the Mayor’s
Office and instructed to form within 7-days term a commission to study
the problems of the district and to discuss them jointly. But, at the
April 11 meeting with inhabitation, Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharian
stated that he is not going to create any commission. Besides,
Y.Zakharian accused the Chairman of the “Community and Right”
organization undertaken protection of the district inhabitants’
rights, of “giving political lining” to the issue.