STATE BODIES HELPESS AGAINST AREA APPROPRIATION RAID?
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[07:30 pm] 09 December, 2008
The parliament held hearings on "Urbanization and Transportation Issues
in Yerevan" today with the mayor of Yerevan, Ministers of Communication
and Transport, Urbanization and Environmental Protection. Not one of
the ministers had rejected the invitation.
RA Deputy Minister of Urbanization, RA Chief Architect Narek Sargsyan,
chief architect of Yerevan Samvel Danielyan and Deputy Minister of
Communication and Transport David Yeritsyan made their speeches and
answered questions raised by NGOs and interested parties. The speech
made by David Yeritsyan did not correspond to reality and many deputies
paid no attention, yet it was the issue of utmost importance-road
junctions and transportation in Yerevan.
However, deputies listened attentively to Narek Sargsyan and asked
him most of the questions, despite the fact that the city council is
mainly responsible for issues concerning urbanization.
Architect of Yerevan Samvel Danielyan evaded talking about greeneries
or tree-cutting, permission for construction of multi-story buildings
in inappropriate places and preferred to talk about road junctions
and the newly remodeled streets. Meanwhile, there are a number of
issues concerning architecture.
In her speech, organizer of the hearings, ARF deputy Lilit Galstyan
recalled that by the July 15, 2005 decision of the mayor of Yerevan,
the altitude of buildings constructed near Republic Square must
be limited "so that the buildings surrounding the square would not
cast shadows." Galstyan complained about the high-story buildings
constructed near the square and the situation on Mastots street. Even
state structures are helpless against the area appropriation raid. "The
building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can’t be seen due to the
construction going on near the building."
This and other complaints brought up by other deputies remained
unanswered. Narek Sargsyan is not competent to give answers to the
construction going on in the city today and it wasn’t in the interest
of Samvel Danielyan to recall their questions and give answers.
The allusion made to the construction going on behind the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs referred to Deputy and contractor of the construction
Melik Gasparyan. Galust Sahakyan was present from the Republican
Party because the parliament was going to discuss issues concerning
transportation.
Among participants of the hearings were members of the "Heritage"
party and the ARF