HINDERED, BUT…
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[08:01 pm] 09 December, 2008
Members of the "Miatsum" national initiative left for Ijevan today
to hold a meeting with citizens in the Culture Home of Ijevan. The
members had scheduled the showing of the film by Tigran Khzmalyan on
liberated lands and issues of citizens of Javakhk, which was supposed
to be followed by a discussion with the theme "Armenia’s liberated
lands and the future of Armenian statehood".
However, the mayor of Ijevan refused to submit a written reply to
NA Deputy Zaruhi Postanjyan to use the hall of the Culture Home,
while Ijevan police and National Security Service officials had begun
pressure to prevent the gathering of people in the "Fountains" square.
As members approached the closed doors of the Culture Home, they
organized a meeting on their own in the "Fountains" square with
the locals. With the microphone in their hands, Zaruhi Postanjyan,
Alek Yenigomshyan, Alexander Kananyan and Grizelda Ghazaryan touched
upon the consequences of the administration’s intentions to hand over
liberated lands of Armenia and the impermissibility in strategic terms.