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FAN AND WRECKER OF SEVAN
The Minister of Nature Protection of RA visited Sevan and talked about Sevan issues in a stately manner in front of TV cameras. Under our information, Aram Harutyunyan improved his financial state at the expense of particularly these territories. At present he owns a magnificent hotel and restaurant complex on a beautiful land area of Sevan Peninsula registered on his brother’s name.

NOT ARMENIAN MOUFFLON ON WEBSITES?
In accordance with EcoLur’s information, “Parallel to advertisements the Ministry of Nature Protection receives applications on arranging households dealing with the support of these animals.” We tried to specify how many applications the Ministry has received, and how many households are already operating.

POSITIVE OPINION OF STATE ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT GROUP ON DEVELOPMENT OF HRAZDAN MINE INEFFECTIVE
The positive opinion of the State Environmental Expert Group on the working project for development of Hrazdan of iron mine became ineffective.

NATURE PROTECTION MINISTER BANS COMMERCIAL FISHING IN LAKE SEVAN
Armenian nature protection minister Aram Harutyunian signed a decree banning commercial fishing in Armenia’s largest lake of Sevan from December 7 to January 15.

“AZATAMART” COMMITTEE DISSEMINATED APPEAL AMONG NGOS AND POLITICAL PARTIES IN SYUINK TO UNITE AGAINST URANIUM MINE DEVELOPMENT
“We are not against the economic development of our country and expansion of ties with other countries to occupy a firmer position in this world. We just want to know how much it will cost us. ...

MINISTRY OF NATURE PROTECTION OF RA PROPOSES TO CARRY OUT A MONITORING OF SMALL HPPs TOGETHER WITH NGOs
“We propose to carry out a joint examination of the existing small HHPs in the form of public monitoring as a first step to share the anxiety of NGOs and to determine our further steps and actions on the basis of these results,” says the letter of the Ministry of Nature Protection of RA numbered 5/04.1/1583.09 addressed to EcoLur Informational NGO.

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