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Illegal site development in Yerevan took unprecedented scales violating all environmental and town planning norms. On 27 April the Alliance for Environmental Organizations together with a group of young activists made a decision to announce a wide-scale public movement “New S.O.S. Yerevan” and to start it with the campaign to save student public garden on Abovyan Street.
As it turned out at this meeting, the seizure of the public garden located between the buildings of State Agrarian University and the National Library took place already 3 years ago, when Yerevan Municipality took the public territory from the Agrarian Academy. At present two buildings are constructed in this public garden located only several meters far away from each other. One of them is constructed by “Elegant-5” LLC, the other - by “Filishin” LLC.
A number of scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of RA, the students of State Agrarian University and Armenian State Engineering University and many NGOs voiced their protest against the site development of the garden public. Within 3-4 days the youth initiative group has collected 1700 signatures on Facebook under the slogan of “Our city has an owner: we are our country’s owners”.
April 29, 2010