On September 6, a number of Yerevan residents and journalists visited Sanitek, the company in charge of Yerevan\u2019s domestic waste disposal. The reason for the visit was failure by the company to comply with its own duties. The visitor-protestors state that it is no longer possible to stand the stench in Yerevan streets. One of the protestors brought along baby diapers.<\/p>\n
Kristina Hovhannisyan, assistant to Sanitek\u2019s CEO, kept on repeating that the visit was not part of their scheduled programs, the CEO was not in office and all questions would be answered during a press conference to be held next week.<\/p>\n
To the remark of the journalists that the CEO is constantly absent and it is normally impossible to get his views, Hovhannisyan reacted: \u201cHe is a busy man, he can\u2019t be in the office all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
While at Sanitek\u2019s office, the visitor-protestors noticed that there are flies all around at the office. \u201cIs this ok for you that flies bother you too?\u201d asked one of the journalists. \u201cFlies are no news for Yerevan, I see nothing strange there. There is a year there are flies, another year there are none. I\u2019m not a specialist in this sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n
The visitors insisted that an authorized person approach them and answer the questions of concern to them. It turned out that it was only the CEO that would like to meet the journalists, he, however, was not in the office.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou keep on shrugging our questions off,\u201d \u00a0said one of the participants of the protest.<\/p>\n
The journalists reminded that Sanitek was fined several million drams a few months ago for failure to comply with their duties, and promised that it would improve its performance. However, now Yerevan residents conclude that the fine was not effective. In response, Hovhannisyan stated that they do their daily duties, however denied the assumptions that the issues of waste disposal could be connected to Taron Margaryan\u2019s resignation. Waste disposal became an issue right after Taron Margaryan resigned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve already stated that we had a similar problem in the past, we have a technical issue now. The CEO will answer all your questions.\u201d It was also impossible to find out what the CEO was busy with, at the same time the whole company fails to do its most important function.<\/p>\n
Hovhannisyan herself lives in Shengavit district of Yerevan, where according to her, everything is fine: \u201cIt\u2019s all fine on my street.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 How come, because you\u2019re a Sanitek employee?<\/p>\n
\u2014 Nobody knows where I live, I just said this now.<\/p>\n
The fact that the visit was not prearranged did not allow for the answers to be properly answered, the CEO assistant kept on reminding.<\/p>\n
The protesters had brought along bags of waste. Arousik Mkrtchyan, an active citizen living in downtown Yerevan stated that the situation on Yerevan\u2019s street could lead to a pandemic. \u201cThe company is responsible, in fact, it is in a state of omission, it fails to do its job. Today they gave no answer to so many journalists and Yerevan residents. The CEO was well aware that we\u2019re coming today. They just have ready-made texts that the CEO had appointments.<\/p>\n
Before the new tender, you should mobilize all your resources, because this is a security issue already. The flies have attacked you too at your office, while they have attacked us all around the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yerevan resident declared that if the issue remains unresolved, protests will continue. There are large groups of people who will also join us, stated Mkrtchyan. She also presented the contents of the waste bag she had brought with herself: \u201cBaby diapers, for example, these would not have been removed from our building backyard, that\u2019s why I\u2019ve brought them here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The members of the Facebook event of this protest intend to bring their waste bags from various districts of Yerevan to Sanitek\u2019s office all day long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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