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    PRESIDENT IS DEMANDED TO PROTECT COVERED MARKET FROM VANDALS

    ARMINFO
    Tuesday, January 29, 12:10

    A group of cultural workers and artists has sent an open letter
    of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan demanding him to stop further
    destruction of the Covered Market.

    The letter reads that last year the Covered Market had been repeatedly
    damaged by construction: the arc roof was damaged twice and the iron
    columns erected in the built-down part of the building have changed its
    external appearance. The authors of the letter recall that the Covered
    Market is included in the list of Yerevan's historical monuments. So,
    they call on the president to consider the above actions as vandalism
    and launch a criminal case against those responsible for destruction
    of the building.

    The authors of the letter come out for transferring the Covered Market
    under management of the Culture Ministry for further assessment of the
    damage caused to the building and its restoration. They warn that the
    building of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia that is to be turned into
    a hotel may face a similar fate. The letter was signed by Head of the
    Union of Architects of Armenia Mkrtich Minasyan, ethnographer Hranush
    Kharatyan, film director Tigran Khzmalyan, Head of the Association
    For Sustainable Development Karine Danielyan, honored architect of
    Armenia Sashur Kalashyan, Head of the Association for Preservation of
    Historical Monuments Gagik Soghomonyan, and a number of architects -
    laureates of the State Prime and the President's Prize. The copies
    of the letter were addressed to the prime minister, the parliament
    speaker and the prosecutor general of Armenia.

    To note, the Covered Market was built in 1952 on the project of
    Armenian architect Grigory Aghababyan and has been considered one of
    the symbols of the Armenian capital since then. Mass media reported
    that Armenian MP Samvel Alexanyan had bought the Covered Market from
    the Leader of Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan. Earlier the
    Union of Initiative to Protect Yerevan addressed an open letter to
    the president concerning the Covered Market.

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