ECOLOGICAL PUBLIC ALLIANCE TO HOLD ACTION OF PROTEST AGAINST ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION IMPLEMENTED IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Jul 26, 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The ecological public alliance, which
unites 32 non-governmental organizations, is going to hold an action
of protest against illegal construction implemented in the capital
in the Opera garden of Yerevan near the monument of Arno Babajanian,
on July 26 at 18:00. "We are against all those steps which are causin
an ecological disaster in our city. The greediness of our "elite" has
gone beyond any boundary. The construction business is purposefully
destroying the green zones and historical-cultural monuments of the
city, turning the capital into an asphalt-concrete desert for the
last ten years," is written in the appeal of the alliance directed
at the citizens of Yerevan.

Touching upon the fact of the construction started near the Karapi
Litch (Lake of Swans) in the Opera garden, the authors of the appeal
mention that after the stir created by the representatives of the
ecological public alliance it seems to have stopped, however, they
could not find out in any way who is implementing this construction
and what building they envisage to construct there.

"The authorities even promised to fill that gap of "no one". Let us
help them. Let’s gather around that gap, bring a "handful" of soil and
fill the gap with it. Let it be our investment in the struggle carried
out against the illegal construction business," is said in the appeal.