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Environment | 29.07.10 | 11:59

Bruised over Teghut: Environmental pressure group defiant after protest breakup

By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Police used force on Wednesday to break up a protest in Yerevan near a commercial bank that intends to loan a controversial mining project in northern Armenia. Activists were at VTB bank to protest its financing of Armenian Copper Programme’s (ACP) development of a mine in Teghut.

The activists demanded that VTB should stop the funding of the “anti-ecological and illegal Teghut project”, publicize the Bank’s environmental criteria [for loan programs] and the names of those who have developed these criteria. The protesters further called for an end to what they call a contemptuous attitude towards society, for honoring the principles of transparency and accountability and also demanded that clear answers be given to letters of environmental and human rights organizations.

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17.08.2010 12:31
It is good to think about environment but protest is not the right way.
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