{"id":168204,"date":"2012-03-14T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=168204"},"modified":"2012-03-14T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:29:42","slug":"demolish-kiosks-not-in-3-years-but-now-environmentalists-appeal-to-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/14\/demolish-kiosks-not-in-3-years-but-now-environmentalists-appeal-to-prime-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"Demolish Kiosks Not in 3 Years, But Now: Environmentalists Appeal to Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the environmental activists who have been protesting in Mashtots Park for nearly a month, human rights attorney Meri Khachatryan today delivered a letter to Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, asking him on behalf of the group to remove from tomorrow&#8217;s government meeting agenda the item on dismantling the kiosks in the park after three years and opt to dismantle the kiosks immediately instead.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, according to the Armenian government&#8217;s official website, a government decision on &#8220;retaining the Yerevan mayor&#8217;s authority&#8221; authored by Yerevan mayor Taron Margaryan is included in the Mar. 15 government meeting agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contents of this draft [item] proves that Yerevan city and Armenia&#8217;s executive authorities have not CORRECTLY [caps in original] understood our, the public&#8217;s, demand in the matter of Mashtots Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We emphasize again the construction and placement of pavilions\/kiosks in the aforementioned area is ILLEGAL [caps in original] and contradicts Yerevan&#8217;s master [city] plan. We are convinced that there is no construction project that includes the installation of the retail pavilions moved from Abovyan St. to the Mashtots Park segment of the main avenue&#8217;s public green space as part Yerevan&#8217;s master plan and concept with the zoning plan in the Kentron [central] administrative district,&#8221; reads the letter, in part.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the activists yesterday began a non-stop sit-in in the central Yerevan park. Last night, police allowed only one tent to be pitched, while 27 activists spent the night.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We emphasize again the construction and placement of pavilions\/kiosks in the aforementioned area is ILLEGAL and is contrary to&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11446,30650,38251,35522,38450,11161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}