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On the eve of Summit Rio-20, the government held an enlarged meeting of Public Council on Sustainable Development on 16 December. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan headed the meeting: Armenia still holds line 86 in the list of 187 countries, which the PM assessed as success. However, let’s see whether we can really fix thus as success. The first finding of the Armenian Report was drawn up based on the UN survey. Successes were reflected in the stated programs and signed documents. Nevertheless, we can see that we are losing the environment, which doesn’t comply with sustainable development. We don’t have environmental damage assessment, any procedures for conducting environmental expert assessment, sufficient control over environmental violations, which would enable to present destructions in qualitative equivalence. In this case, negative phenomena, as well as positive ones must find their places in the report not getting restricted with the wish to balance pluses and minuses.
It should be noted while the Public Council was conducting a meeting, there was a protest demonstration held by the government building in support of Qajaran Village, who are opposing to the government decision N 627, which threatens the villagers with forced displacement.
Photo by Tert.am
December 19, 2011 at 12:26