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NO DEMOUNTED MONUMENT RESTORED IN 9 YEARS
11:20 / 25.06.2014
The talks as if Ministry of Culture has applied to court to stop the
demounting works of ancient Afrikyan building do not correspond to
reality, Karo Ayvazyan, head of Yerevan territorial department of
the History and Cultural Monuments Preservation Agency told Nyut.am.
Armenia's Helsinki Committee and Urbanlab Yerevan have applied to
the administrative court.
On June 23 Culture Ministry's History and Cultural Monuments
Preservation Agency head sent a writ to the police on stopping the
demounting works claiming that the company doing it has not submitted
necessary documents. Within an hour the company presented the necessary
documents.
Ayvazyan said the permission to destroy the building was not given
by the agency headed by him and it cannot stop the process. "We must
control the process and in case of registering flaws suspend the
actions until they are settled but if the construction is legal and
all the documents exist we cannot do anything," Ayvazyan said, adding
that the building is included in the Old Yerevan project and will be
gathered stone by stone in 60 meter distance from the current place.
"It has its place according to the chief Yerevan plan while till
that Glendale Hills organization will keep the stones in Sebastia
administrative district," he said.
The speaker convinced that they are going to form an act of the
number and quality of the stones and if losses or damages are
registered during the demounting works the organization will take
the responsibility.
As to the photos, videos showing how carelessly the demounting works
are being done, Ayvazyan said that it is the reason why they are
against demounting. No matter how careful transportation is being
done during it the monument losses some of its values.
"From 2005 Old Yerevan project is being implemented with some buildings
being demounted but no real steps toward the implementation of the
project are being done. 8-9 years is enough while neither of the
transported monuments have been restored," he said.
http://nyut.am/archives/205721?lang=en
11:20 / 25.06.2014
The talks as if Ministry of Culture has applied to court to stop the
demounting works of ancient Afrikyan building do not correspond to
reality, Karo Ayvazyan, head of Yerevan territorial department of
the History and Cultural Monuments Preservation Agency told Nyut.am.
Armenia's Helsinki Committee and Urbanlab Yerevan have applied to
the administrative court.
On June 23 Culture Ministry's History and Cultural Monuments
Preservation Agency head sent a writ to the police on stopping the
demounting works claiming that the company doing it has not submitted
necessary documents. Within an hour the company presented the necessary
documents.
Ayvazyan said the permission to destroy the building was not given
by the agency headed by him and it cannot stop the process. "We must
control the process and in case of registering flaws suspend the
actions until they are settled but if the construction is legal and
all the documents exist we cannot do anything," Ayvazyan said, adding
that the building is included in the Old Yerevan project and will be
gathered stone by stone in 60 meter distance from the current place.
"It has its place according to the chief Yerevan plan while till
that Glendale Hills organization will keep the stones in Sebastia
administrative district," he said.
The speaker convinced that they are going to form an act of the
number and quality of the stones and if losses or damages are
registered during the demounting works the organization will take
the responsibility.
As to the photos, videos showing how carelessly the demounting works
are being done, Ayvazyan said that it is the reason why they are
against demounting. No matter how careful transportation is being
done during it the monument losses some of its values.
"From 2005 Old Yerevan project is being implemented with some buildings
being demounted but no real steps toward the implementation of the
project are being done. 8-9 years is enough while neither of the
transported monuments have been restored," he said.
http://nyut.am/archives/205721?lang=en