ArmInfo
Environmentalists do not support the Yerevan Municipality's motto "We are Yerevan!" declared during the festivities on occasion of the 2,972th anniversary of Erebuni Yerevan.
"To declare such slogans it is necessary to have clean environment. Unfortunately, today's Yerevan is far from being green," Karine Danielyan, Chairwoman of the Association for Sustainable Development said in a press conference on Monday. She called the large-scale construction of the last 10 years in the city anti-environmental and anti-social. Of instance, Danielyan brought the useless efforts of the public against construction of a cafe in the city Student Park.
"Although we appealed to the court, we have no hopes for victory. The owner of those facilities has not been named yet. Whoever he is, he proved influential enough to easily resist public protests," she said.
"Green areas in Yerevan and throughout Armenia were ruined by ordinary greed," K. Danielyan said.
October 12, 2010