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Another serious threat to green zones in Yerevan: if not a crime has been permitted, then it is a gross unlawful action. A group of residents and their children resist to this unlawful action in order to assert their rights and legal interests and to save green zones

The Ministries of Urban Development and Nature Protection objected to it, nevertheless the government decided to support Yerevan Mayor’s initiative.

Through its protest demonstrations the youth seeks to stop construction in the garden located between Mashtots Avenue and Saryan Street. M. Minasyan thinks a seven-or-nine-storey hotel cannot be built in this territory

The Armenian moneybags are ready to destroy one more park in Yerevan.

On 20 July at 19:30 signatures will be collected near “Malibu” café on Mashtots Avenue against constructing a shopping mall in the garden located between Saryan Street and Mashtots Avenue.

“We Are Our City’s Owners” political initiative disseminated the following announcement: Learning out about the discussion to launch underground and over-ground civil works in the park on Mashtots Avenue, “We Are Our City’s Owners” political initiative raises an alarm and warns:

WHY ERRANDS GIVEN IN OUR PRESENCE NOT PERFORMED, WHILE GARBAGE IN GARDEN NOT COLLECTED? ‘Panorama.am” news site published an article about the garden located on Saryan and Aram Streets rolled in garbage. The Head of Public Service Management Department of Yerevan Municipality Gagik Khachatryan particularly said, “…these territories are leased and civil works are to be conducted there.”

One of few parks in the capital, a public place, will soon become another VIP-place. We speak about the park located in the area from Mashtots Avenue to Saryan Street, starting from “Malibu” Cafe.

“Yerevan is turning into a half desert and concrete city, no construction in Yerevan corresponds to building norms,”

Taking into consideration heavy environmental situation causing lethal damage to human health in Yerevan "We Are This City''s Owners" Initiative Group draws Yerevan residents and Yerevan City Hall attention to the folloing facts: parks without any cafes and private investments are not taken care of at all.

People living in block of flats at 44, 41 and 35 Narekatsi in Avan Quarter are worrying about gardens they cultivated as the local office for the Republican Party of Armenia is located under their buildings. They think tree felling will be conducted for car parking as the same was done for RPA office building. Residents call landscape gardening employees a destroying brigade, because they destroy the fences of the gardens.

We support the initiative to save the Student Garden and other initiatives as well, such as saving Gardens in Dalma, stopping site development in the Ring Boulevard and Opera Garden, Victory Park. Hrazdan Gorge, as well as we call to neglect events held in all hotel and restaurant complexes built in seized zones.

In May the concentration of cement in the atmospheric air in Hrazdan exceeded MPC (maximum permissible concentration) by 1.4 times. What about Ararat, the cement concentration exceeded MPC by 1.6 times. This information was passed to ArmInfo by the National Statistical Service.

The Criminal Investigation Department of Gyumri Police has recently initiated a criminal case against Gyumri Mayor Gevorg Ghukasyan’s elder brother on the basis of Gyumri Municipality Cashier Rima Hovhannisyan’s complaint. We speak about the trees of the urban central park (known as “Sausage Garden”.

We considering hindering the ties between the Aldermen’s Council of Yerevan and electors as an antidemocratic and illegitimate step and demand to immediately examine this case, to punish culprits and to ensure free letter receipt.

The Aldermen’s Council of Kapan approved environmental protection and population health program for 2010 at its meeting.

Basing on the importance and symbolism of the monument to V. Hambardzumyan and the observatory for the city, the general meeting has adopted the following decision: to demand from the Yerevan municipality to stop the abovementioned civil works and to recover the former look of the garden in short terms.

As Artur Avtandilyan, member of "We are Owners of our City" Group, created in Facebook, told ArmInfo, the suit was caused by the fact that Yerevan Municipality, at request of Transparency International, did not delivered the documents on construction of a cafe in the Student Park within the terms provided by the law.