Mayor fails to fulfill pledge
"We have been here since morning. There are nearly 40-50 police officers following up on the construction. They promised that they wouldn't let the builders do anything until morning, but now they are following up to make sure the construction continues. The workers are currently placing the windows of the stands," environmentalist-activist Vahram Soghomonyan told "A1+".
Last evening, environmentalists in Yerevan managed to stop the construction of stands, but construction restarted at 12 a.m. last night.
The environmentalists have been fighting against the placement of the trade stands demolished on Abovyan Street and for the preservation of the public park at Mashtots Avenue for the past eleven days.
We remind that Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan had pledged to take the environmentalists' proposals into account to preserve the park, but yesterday he announced that the park was not a green zone.
