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ENVIRONMENTALISTS HOLDING PROTECT AT A MAJOR MINING CONFERENCE IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN, March 25. /ARKA/. Dozens of environmental activists are
holding a protest outside Armenia Mariott Hotel in the center of
Yerevan where a conference on mining industry is taking place arranged
by the World Bank and the Armenian government.
The conference is supported also by the EBRD, the IMF, embassies of
the USA, Great Britain and Germany and the Canadian government.
Armenia's premier Tigran Sargsyan was expected, but may not come to
the conference.
A group of environmentalists managed to get into the conference hall
holding "World Bank Takes Part in Robbing Armenia", "Hands Off from
Armenia", "We Know Who Are the Owners of the Mines". Protesters were
offering glasses of water from Armenia's reservoirs to participants,
Novosti-Armenia reported. -0--
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YEREVAN, March 25. /ARKA/. Dozens of environmental activists are
holding a protest outside Armenia Mariott Hotel in the center of
Yerevan where a conference on mining industry is taking place arranged
by the World Bank and the Armenian government.
The conference is supported also by the EBRD, the IMF, embassies of
the USA, Great Britain and Germany and the Canadian government.
Armenia's premier Tigran Sargsyan was expected, but may not come to
the conference.
A group of environmentalists managed to get into the conference hall
holding "World Bank Takes Part in Robbing Armenia", "Hands Off from
Armenia", "We Know Who Are the Owners of the Mines". Protesters were
offering glasses of water from Armenia's reservoirs to participants,
Novosti-Armenia reported. -0--
- See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/society/environmentalists_holding_protect_at_a_major_minin g_conference_in_yerevan/#sthash.A7cZM5pZ.dpuf