The mayor of Yerevan Ervand Zakharyan tried to give some information about the sale of the territories of the RA National Academy of Science (NAS) chemical institution. With this purpose he invited the head of the institution Sevada Davtyan to the municipal administration office. It is worth to mention that the city administration sold the 10.000 square meters territory of the institution with the purposes to construct block-houses in that territory. The city administration didn’t ask whether the institution management team agreed or not. Moreover, they didn’t inform them about this. Sevada Davtyan told us that the mayor had told her that he hadn’t been informed about that deal. He also told her that this was carried out by the ex-mayor of Yerevan Robert Nazaryan and that he had only signed the documents. But the territories of the institution were sold in two auctions in 2003. When the management of the institution tried to fight against the first auction the other part of the territory was sold only by signing the documents by the mayor.
According to Sevada Davtyan, they applied to the president after the auction. The head of the president’s personnel Artashes Tumanyan offered them to come to an agreement, since they had already started their reconstruction works on a part of that territory. He offered to leave that reconstruction area for them, but to return the rest of the 4200 square meters territory to the institution. This memorandum was made by the Academy and the head of the Academy Fadeh Sargsyan signed it. “At first the mayor agreed to sign this document, but later he changed his mind”,-said S.Davtyan.
The head of the chemical institution has suggested the mayor to go there and see the situation there himself.