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    YEREVAN CITY ADMINISTRATION SHOULD TEMPORARILY ALLOW STREET TRADE, "DASHNAKTSUTIUN" BELIEVES

    Mediamax, Armenia
    March 31 2011

    Yerevan/Mediamax/. Vice-Mayor of Yerevan Kamo Areyan stated today that
    the ban for street trade is the requirement of the law on "Trade and
    Services", and not a measure, initiated by the City Administration.

    Mediamax reports that Kamo Areyan said this, speaking at parliamentary
    hearings on "Street trade in urban communities".

    According to him, the law allows organizing street trade of a limited
    number of goods (ice-cream, flowers, fresheners, seedlings), given
    the corresponding infrastructure.

    In the beginning of the year, Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan made
    a decision to ban street trade, which caused discontent and protest
    actions among street traders.

    Kamo Areyan noted that, taking into account the interests of citizens,
    dealing with street trade, Yerevan City Administration ordered the
    markets, functioning in the capital, to give the chance of organizing
    trade on the territory of the markets without collection of rent fee
    for the first three months.

    People, dealing with street trade, who participated in the
    discussion, expressed their discontent concerning the offer of the
    City Administration. In particular, they said that the majority of
    street traders are subpurchasers, who cannot compete in the market
    with farmers, who offer their own agricultural products.

    In response, Kamo Areyan said that at present 8 projects for setting
    up mini-markets in Yerevan are in the process of consideration in
    the City Administration, and this will allow solving to some degree
    the problem of the subpurchasers. The issue of organizing a wholesale
    agricultural market is also on the agenda of the City Administration.

    "This decision will be based both on the interests of the farmers and
    the subpurchasers. The idea of a wholesale market existing a long time
    ago, however it was not realized in the view of non-consistency or
    lack of determination among the city authorities", Kamo Areyan stated.

    MP from "Dashnaktsutiun" faction Artsvik Minasyan urged the city
    authorities to temporarily allow street trade, simultaneously
    establishing conditions for people to move to more proper places
    for trade.

    "Constitution of Armenia reads that the state should create
    opportunities for citizens to earn money for living; however without
    offering alternative variants for making a living and all of a sudden
    depriving people of their living, the City Administration violates the
    basic law of the country. I urge the city authorities to stop, admit
    that they have made a grave mistake and, demonstrating an individual
    approach to citizens, offer them alternative opportunities", Artsvik
    Minasyan stated.




    From: A. Papazian
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