Epress.am News from Armenia
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is lying when he says that people live well, that everything is good. This simply isn’t true, head of Property Rights Protection NGO Vachagan Hakobyan told Epress.am while participating in the protest outside the government building today.
Recall, the head of the NGO assisting residents who were evicted from buildings 4/14 to 4/24 Amiryan St. had told Epress.am earlier that MP Melik Gasparyan, who died from a car accident two years, had purchased the property in question from city hall 4 years ago and had apparently promised the residents new homes.
Today, Hakobyan said that a few members of their group, along with pilots with disabilities who say compensation owing to them has not yet been paid and the mothers of deceased soldiers who protest every Thursday, last week went to the presidential residence to present their concerns.
“A delegation of ours went in, and, as always, they said they will send the issue to the necessary bodies. The issue here is that [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan, who stands up in Strasbourg or congratulates us on Constitution Day, tells lies… Everywhere he says that we’re good, everything is good. I’m going to also go talk with the Armenian National Congress not to go but to say that we are demanding pre-term elections; we have to simply say resign and the people stand until these guys come. This is what remains. [These authorities] do nothing; they only have formal speeches on television. The country’s president is lying and the sooner we become free from these authorities, the sooner the people will begin to live well,” said Hakobyan.
The head of the Property Rights Protection NGO also recalled that when Serzh Sargsyan was still prime minister, he met with them and publicly promised to find a solution to their issue. This visit, however, has not yet yielded any results, he said.