PARTICIPANTS OF THE MEETING BESIEGED THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE

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This morning from 10:00 a.m. numerous policemen defended the Presidential Residence from the participants of the demonstration. They were the residents of several center streets (North Avenue, Buzand, Koghbaci, Erznka streets and Kond) who are evicted from their houses because of the construction works realized “for state needs”. They had difference posters in their hands. Their main question to Robert Kocharyan was, “Where shall we go?” “We were evicted “for state needs”, said the other poster.

The residents of the North Avenue who have been struggling for the last 1.5 year to restore their violated rights turn to Kocharyan, “We have received too little money with which we cannot buy houses. We are left shelterless”. The 2 000 dollars given to each person during the eviction is not enough to buy a house even in the suburbs of Yerevan. “I was given 3 500 dollars. What can I do with that sum?” said a 67-year-old woman who has lived most of his life in the North Avenue.

Although there is no construction and eviction program in the Kond district (yet), the residents of that district have reasons to join the demonstration. “We have fears that tomorrow we will deserve the same fate”. It is already the second year that in the Kond district the privatization documents are not given to the residents, and young people returning from the army or getting married are not registered in their houses. This will provide a small number of people registered in the district and thus, small sums of money given to people. By the way, in Kond about 130 thousand people live today.