Citizens working for several organizations that are part of the North-South investment plans closed the Yerevan-Talin highway. Hundreds of citizens used their cars to close off the road. They are demanding that the Corsan-Corviram Construccion S.A. organization pay them their salaries.
Protesters told the police, “It is not easy to steal money from hundreds of people.” Someone else said, “This has become the way to protest in the Republic of Armenia, so we took this step.” The protesters told Aravot, “We have worked for many years. There have been problems, of course, but those problems were solved before the New Year. However, this time, they haven’t paid us our salaries since August.”
The Corsan-Corviram organization claims that the Armenian government does not pay them on time, which is why they cannot pay salaries.
The protesters have hope that this problem will be resolved within the next two days so that they can spend the New Year in Armenia and not have to worry about finding jobs in other countries.
Tatev Harutyunyan
