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    VICTOR HAMBARTSUMYAN, CHARLES AZNAVOUR, VARAZDAT MKRTCHYAN: WHO'S NEXT?

    Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
    Oct 21 2009
    Armenia

    At its sitting today the Municipal Council of Yerevan, besides others,
    discussed the issues of conferring the honorary title of freeman of
    Yerevan on Head of the Nork-Marsh community Varazdat Lazarian. The
    Council held a stormy debate.

    "No one can say the opposite. During their 11-year-long activities the
    prefects have made a great contribution. I think it is in conformity
    with moral principles to have a freeman of Yerevan as head of
    community," said Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglaryan.

    Armen Hakobyan of the Prosperous Party of Armenia was the only person
    to oppose the Mayor's initiative. Naming the outstanding figures that
    were made freeman of Yerevan (Victor Hambartsumyan, Charles Aznavour,
    Yuri Luzhkov and Boris Yeltsin), he called on the participants to
    listen to the "voice of conscience" instead of "giving political
    preferences." "Today we have to appreciate or depreciate the honorary
    title of freeman of Yerevan," he said.

    In response, Mayor Beglaryan said that most of the persons mentioned
    by Hakobyan were awarded the title for political reasons. "Now I want
    to confer this title on the persons who really contribute to the
    development of Yerevan. Next time this title will be warded to the
    builder, driver, tree planter and scientist who have really played
    an important role in Yerevan's life," Beglaryan said.

    Varazdat Lazarian has been head of the Nork-Marsh community since
    1999.
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