Residents of the area on Buzand and Aram Streets to be exploited who had gathered outside the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) office, so to say, “caught by surprise” Taron Margaryan, the mayor of Yerevan, after the RPA council meeting. The mayor “got along” with them. In any case, the residents were satisfied and happy after the meeting.
Taron Margaryan asked a City Hall worker to write down everyone’s phone number and assured that their problem would be necessarily solved. A woman protester, a resident of the community of Erebuni, approached him and told him with her eyes full of tears that she had a schoolchild, “He doesn’t have any clothes or shoes, my dear.” The mayor asked whether she had applied to the City Hall. The woman went, “Unless you tell them, the City Hall won’t solve that issue.” Taron Margaryan ordered his workers, “Write down her phone number and you will go to Artur Karapetyan tomorrow. You can go to Chorbulakh without worrying and come to the City Hall tomorrow.”
According to one of the protesters, “I am a 60-year-old woman, I have no job, nothing, how shall I make the payment, how shall I live, many of us owe money to banks, pay interests.”
One of them demanded, “Mr. Margaryan, we don’t ask much from you, give us our land, give us our 4 walls to live. If this issue is not solved, I have decided to lock my door and leave Armenia.”
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When we inquired of the mayor when those people’s problem would be eventually solved, he explained, “A commission has been established in the Ministry of Finance headed by the minister. Representatives of all interested parties are involved in that commission. The fact is being discussed; the commission will make public its final decision after the discussion.”
In response to an observation of www.aravot.am whether it wasn’t late to discuss it after 8 years, he said, “The commission has just been established and be sure that the commission will do everything to solve the problem.”
They made different promises, when they tried to turn people out of their homes at the time. In response to this observation of ours, Taron Margaryan said, “That is why a criminal case has been opened against those investors, those owners who deceived our citizens and we will see the criminal case through in accordance with the law.”
