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RA OMBUDSMAN TO SERIOUSLY DEAL WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
PanARMENIAN.Net
23.10.2009 21:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Armenia faces serious human rights problems in the
sphere of environmental protection," Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan told
a news conference in Yerevan.
The main problem, in his view, concerns deforestation, chemical
emissions and absence of state control over industrial companies.
Ombudsman drew journalists' attention to disastrous environmental
situation in Kapan. Land, water and products there turned out to
contain harmful substances whose concentration exceeds permitted limits
100 times. Harutyunyan also called attention to the estimations of
ecologists who find that environmental pollution in region is mainly
caused by emissions from "Deno Gold Mining" company. "Those harmful
substances are not dissolved, and accumulating in organisms, they
negatively affect the immune system and gene pool of human beings,"
Armen Harutyunyan said, adding that polluted air in the region
caused children to suffer skin diseases and produced harmful impact
on the fauna.
Ombudsman also stressed the inhabitants of the region did not get
any compensation at all.
PanARMENIAN.Net
23.10.2009 21:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Armenia faces serious human rights problems in the
sphere of environmental protection," Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan told
a news conference in Yerevan.
The main problem, in his view, concerns deforestation, chemical
emissions and absence of state control over industrial companies.
Ombudsman drew journalists' attention to disastrous environmental
situation in Kapan. Land, water and products there turned out to
contain harmful substances whose concentration exceeds permitted limits
100 times. Harutyunyan also called attention to the estimations of
ecologists who find that environmental pollution in region is mainly
caused by emissions from "Deno Gold Mining" company. "Those harmful
substances are not dissolved, and accumulating in organisms, they
negatively affect the immune system and gene pool of human beings,"
Armen Harutyunyan said, adding that polluted air in the region
caused children to suffer skin diseases and produced harmful impact
on the fauna.
Ombudsman also stressed the inhabitants of the region did not get
any compensation at all.