NGOS RAISE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

Panorama.am
18:50 01/03/2007

Today 26 environmental NGOs announced about the formation of coalition
"SOS-Teghut" which aims to bring the implementation of Teghut mines
into the legal field. The NGOs told a press conference today that
several international treaties are violated in case Teghut mines
are processed.

The members of a coalition submitted an open letter to the president
of the Republic today. Nazeli Vardanyan, head of Armenian Forests NGO,
said they will wait for the president’s answer and after that they will
apply to Constitutional Court and international institutions. NGOs
say several ecological disasters are expected in case Teghut mines
are processed.