LARGE-SCALE WORK IN YEREVAN WAS NOT DONE FOR PR PURPOSE OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SERGE SARGSIAN, MAYOR OF YEREVAN SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Feb 11, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The mayor of Yerevan Yervand
Zakharian considered as irresponsible the RA presidential candidate
Artur Baghdasarian’s recent statement that the prices of lands in
central Yerevan were established at a lower level than their cost price
at the auctions organized by the mayor’s office. The mayor explained
at the February 11 press conference that the mayor’s office is obliged
to establish the reserve price of lands to be auctioned at 50-70%
of the average market price.
According to him, control of these prices is done by the State
Committee of the Real Estate Cadastre.
In response to the question about whether the large-scale work done
in Yerevan by the mayor’s office in 2007 had a PR purpose for the
RA presidential candidate Serge Sargsian, Y. Zakharian replied that
this work was done within the 2004-2007 programs on socioeconomic
development of Yerevan and has no relation to PR of this candidate
for presidency.