S.O.S. SEVAN INITIATIVE GROUP TO PLAN AUTUMN MOVE
Panorama.am
18:12 04/06/2009
S.O.S. Sevan initiative group plans to hold autumn action, Inga
Zarafyan, the president of "Ecolur" environmental NGO told in a
press conference. The action is going to have different directions,
Zarafyan said.
First, a monitoring of "GeoProMining" company activities will be
conducted regarding the implementation of environmental duties. "We
are intended to make investigation of international experience of
such companies, to inform public about the activities conducted in
Sotq mining," she said.
In 2008 S.O.S. Sevan initiative found support from international
ecological and public groups like IPEN, WECF, Forum NGO on ADB are,
the expert says.
In this respect the initiative group sent letters to Armenian high
ranking officials with requests to stop the processes on constructing
gold reprocessing factory in Sotq mining.