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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.
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