YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Residents of Yerevan's Yeznik Koghbatsi Street and the Dalma gardens staged a demonstration in front of the RA government's building on September 27 in connection with procrastination of the privatization of the residential areas occupied by them. They demand that their violated rights be restored and their right of ownership over the apartments and land plots used by them be recognized. Vachagan Hakobian, chairman of Protection of Own Rights NGO, told NT correspondent that on April 13 of this year the Armenian prime minister Serge Sargsian received the denonstrators and promised to solve this problem after the parliamentary elections. The prime minister instructed the Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharian to speed up the real estate privatization in these areas but this instruction has not been fulfilled so far. In the words of V. Hakobian, under a number of governmental decisions, which were later recognized as anticonstitutional, the Yerevan municipality (using the levers of force structures, administrative and court systems) have evicted Armenian citizens from their apartments. "We demand the mayor's resignation: he must be called to account for selling areas to businessmen under the pretext of "state needs", V. hakobian stated. Sedrak Baghdasarian, chairman of Victims of State Needs NGO, noted that in case of failing to get a positive response from the prime minister, the residents will send an open letter to the country's president, and to a number of international structures, including the European Court.

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