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9 Feb 2022

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Ecolur

Armenia: Local residents opposing Teghout mine & tailing dump met with Lori Regional Head without results

Meeting with no results: Teghout residents heard regular promises, 9 February 2022

Recently the meeting of Teghut active residents took place with Lori Regional Head Aram Khachatryan, MP Aren Mkrtchyan, Shnogh Community Head Davit Ghumashyan, Teghout settlement administrative representative Frunz Aghekyan in Teghut settlement in Lori Region. The meeting was originally planned with the participation of the administration of "Teghout" CJSC in a trilateral format. However, it turned out on the day of the meeting that the regional head, the MP and the representatives of the local self-government had already met with the administration of the company without the residents.

Speaking to EcoLur, Teghout resident Martin Shakhkyan, who participated in the meeting with the regional head, said that they had not been given any details about the meeting with the company. "They said we talked to the company's administration, and they said we were thinking about it, we would try to support, we would be persistent. We have been hearing the same words, the same sentences since 2019, four years have passed and they are saying the same thing," he said...

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