Yerevan Chief Architect Believes Campaign Against Him a Settling of Accounts

Yerevan’s chief architect, Narek Sarsgyan, believes that the criticism directed against him is intentional.

 

“There’s an aspect of clearing personal accounts here. At one time I proposed Northern Avenue — the Union of Architects was against it. I suggested to tear down the National Assembly gates and turn the grounds into a public park — again, the same union opposed it,” he said, adding that it would be interesting to hear the Union of Architects’ position. “Not to build [anything] in Yerevan; not to lay stone upon stone.”

 

Sargsyan believes the Union is coming out against him this way because he left the organization — because he believed it doesn’t have a principled position.

 

As for the Facebook group created against him, Yerevan’s chief architect said there is only one youth actively campaigning against him and the existence of 2,000 people in the group is fake.

 

“I’m a professional architect, with white gloves, and I have made a great contribution in building the city of Yerevan. They can say it as much as they want: Yerevan is not the Yerevan of 10 years ago,” said Sargsyan.