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JUDGE ASKS NATURE PROTECTION MINISTRY TO PROVIDE LEGAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR DOLPHINARIUM
epress.am
09.16.2011
On Sept. 15, the lawsuit launched by Center of Bird Lovers and Ecodar
NGO representative and Prezumpcia consulting center Director Levon
Ohanyan against the RA Ministry of Nature Protection was heard in
the Yerevan administrative court. The government ministry is being
accused of inaction with reference to the newly constructed Nemo
Dolphinarium in Yerevan's Komitas Park, which environmentalists have
been demanding be shut down.
Yesterday's court session was taken up mainly by Judge Ruzan Hakobyan
directing questions to the nature protection ministry representative,
Center of Bird Lovers NGO President Silva Adamyan told Epress.am.
"In particular, the judge was asking if, according to appeals by
various environmental groups, a survey of the surrounding environment
had been made and an assessment document provided. The ministry
representative was insisting that after the area was transferred for
use it is not subject to being surveyed, but our attorney Levon Ohanyan
insisted and [made a case] with documents that we have appealed to
the ministry with such letters prior to the transfer of the building
for us," she said.
In Adamyan's opinion, in hearing these preliminary court hearings,
the judge understood that a serious lawsuit has been launched against
the nature protection ministry.
"The judge gave the ministry representative 20 days for them to
present documents and legal explanations as to what the ministry did
concerning the dolphinarium in general," she said.
Note, the next court date has been scheduled for Oct. 2 at 4:30 pm.
From: A. Papazian
epress.am
09.16.2011
On Sept. 15, the lawsuit launched by Center of Bird Lovers and Ecodar
NGO representative and Prezumpcia consulting center Director Levon
Ohanyan against the RA Ministry of Nature Protection was heard in
the Yerevan administrative court. The government ministry is being
accused of inaction with reference to the newly constructed Nemo
Dolphinarium in Yerevan's Komitas Park, which environmentalists have
been demanding be shut down.
Yesterday's court session was taken up mainly by Judge Ruzan Hakobyan
directing questions to the nature protection ministry representative,
Center of Bird Lovers NGO President Silva Adamyan told Epress.am.
"In particular, the judge was asking if, according to appeals by
various environmental groups, a survey of the surrounding environment
had been made and an assessment document provided. The ministry
representative was insisting that after the area was transferred for
use it is not subject to being surveyed, but our attorney Levon Ohanyan
insisted and [made a case] with documents that we have appealed to
the ministry with such letters prior to the transfer of the building
for us," she said.
In Adamyan's opinion, in hearing these preliminary court hearings,
the judge understood that a serious lawsuit has been launched against
the nature protection ministry.
"The judge gave the ministry representative 20 days for them to
present documents and legal explanations as to what the ministry did
concerning the dolphinarium in general," she said.
Note, the next court date has been scheduled for Oct. 2 at 4:30 pm.
From: A. Papazian