Marine Martirosyan, 168 Zhams
…”Environmental Problems arisen in Armenia are not conditioned by liberal market relations, and the situation doesn’t reach to such a degree of hazard that people will migrate exclusively because of environmental reasons. This is the result of the policy run by the current government and state officials. For example, the issue of Hrazdan iron mine development, which is beyond any logic. You can’t understand, what kind of problems the authorities should solve with this – creating jobs, territorial development or other problems…
-The right to Hrazdan mine development belongs to the Ex Nature Protection Minister Vardan Ayvazyan. In this case, it wouldn’t be strange, if the authorities are supposed to respond to what they do with their own hands?”
- This is the problem. Who said, if it is Vardan Ayvazyan, the issue shouldn’t be discussed. Moreover, this is the case when it should be discussed more intensively. Here the task of country development is the set out. That’s the way question is formulated, if it is Ayvazyan, everything is allowed…”
-Whether electoral process will influence of freezing the most urgent environmental issues?
- It’s clear that the authorities will do their best not to make the situation tense. The recent visit of PM Tigran Sargsyan to Vanadzor and hearings in Teghout also witnesses this. One way or another, Teghout is a crime. But eventually, who will stop the tree felling at least on this stage...they can hold hearings, where NGOs will be deprived of uttering a word, and the people will work into such a snit that it won’t be able to protest…”
March 27, 2012 at 18:19