The government decree on building and distributing apartments to the families left homeless due to the 1988 earthquake and its further amendments have a lot of drawbacks and does not withstand the examination during enforcement.
It is clear that there is not a perfect law, however, it should be improved and refined during its enforcement. The RA Ministry of Urban Development taking the chance of imperfectness of the law has a developed script, which is to delay apartment privatization process until the owner ‘s death, then to take it back by the court and give it to someone else, and thus to solve the housing problem of two families with one apartment. As you can see, not a bad idea. During the earthquake, our family: my father, my mother, and my 3 sisters lost 3-room apartment. The disaster was all over the country, we had to endure. Like many, we also took shelter, and lived for 20 years.
My sisters got married. Two sisters were lucky. The husbands had apartments, whereas I was not lucky. On January 2008, my father, participant in elimination of the Chernobyl disaster, Harpik Baghdasaryan, died suddenly. My mother, Stelina Baghdasaryan, was left in the list of recipients of 1-room apartments. On June 14, 2010 the RA Government certificate dated March 11, 2010, and the the keys to the apartment No 17, building 6, Mush-2 District, in the presence of the President of Armenia, were delivered to my mother, as well as to other inhabitants of the district.
The next day we started the housewarming party and furnishing the apartment, on the one hand, mourning my father’s death, on the other hand, being comforted that 22 years later we could get at least one-room apartment. Neither of us had ever believed that it was still not our house. A month later, people from an agency are visiting our apartment to take the dimensions; they did their job, and on leaving they said that soon we will be given the certificate of ownership. 2 months later, on August 2010, my mother is going to the Real Estate Cadastre department, is asking for the certificate of ownership, and receiving the following answer, “Why do you need that piece of paper? Go and live. Will the certificate heat you? Are we going to die and leave you without the certificate?”
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I do not know, I do not wish any person from the RA Ministry of Urban Development or Cadastre department to die, but on September 17, 2010, a tragedy happened and my mother died from stroke all of a sudden. Still 15 days before my mother’s death, all the apartments of the district, including our turned out to be the property of the Republic of Armenia, from whom we already had the certificate and where we were living for 3 months. On November 2, 2011, a group of 12 high-ranking officials from the police, the Ministry of Urban Development, Shirak regional administration, and Gyumri municipality entered our apartment and demanded the keys to the apartment, took it, and leaving us in the cold winter outdoors, went away. Later, I learned about a protocol on the search where it was stated that the bathroom shower was missing. Of course, the shower was under the bathtub, should I knew, I would have given it to them, they were men, perhaps, they could fix it. The Committee, of course, had not mentioned the furnishings in the protocol: the furniture, carpets, and curtains.
To justify their actions, they invented that an Interpol investigation is announced against me. Over the 20 years, I was not absent from the city, moreover, I was not absent from my mother’s apartment a single day. Where should I go? Whom to escape from? What should I fear from? On July 13, 2013, the RA Ministry of Urban Development sued to the court of general jurisdiction of Shirak marz and asked “to evict Hasmik Baghdasaryan from one-room apartment.” When I ask what is the fault of our parents or my sisters, they responded that first my parents had no right to leave this world early before receiving the certificate of ownership, if they wanted to own something, you were to live longer, 22 years was few. As for the fault of your sisters, in the past 20 years they should not marry a person with no apartment. It appears that marriage is early death is a sin.
Dear Prime Minister T. Sargsyan, dear Minister of Justice H. Tovmasyan, I know, you are not even trying to look for legislative and separate individuals culpability in all of these. I allow myself to offer introducing one of the following options in the regulation on delivering apartments. While delivering the RA Government certificate and the keys to the apartment, warn the inhabitant in written not to die suddenly or to marry, and that after demolishing the temporary shelter and handing over the keys and the certificate, in case of the death of the inhabitant or a family member, the apartment is passed to the heir or other family members. Thus, the official document with coat of arms of Armenia becomes useless and worthless, purely symbolic ostentation.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, I ask for your petition to the Government of Armenia to take me the application of eviction back and resolve the issue after bringing the guilty parties to responsibility for delaying the privatization process.
Hasmik Baghdasaryan
Gyumri
