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    Environmentalists warn against giving Syunik pastures to Iran for rent

    TERT.AM
    15:52 - 02.02.13

    Provision of 50 thousand hectares of Syunik pastures to Iran may be a
    serious danger for Armenia, a number of environmentalists said at a
    news conference on Saturday, expressing their concern over the issue.

    Botanist Karen Afrikyan said years later these lands will undergo erosion.

    `Our cattle breeders know very well how the pastures should be used
    they just do not have means. Farmers were cheated so much that they do
    not believe anyone. They say they will return the lands unharmed, it
    is a lie, forget it,' the botanist said.

    On January 14 a delegation headed by Syunik province's governor Suren
    Khachatryan departed for Iran's East Azerbaijan Province where
    memorandum of agricultural cooperation was signed between the two
    provinces.

    Within the framework of cooperation, it is intended to give Syunik
    pastures to Iran's East Azerbaijan Province for rent. According to the
    same memorandum, 50 thousand hectares of pastures will be provided for
    ten years. Another 200 hectares will be provided for settlement. At
    least 50 thousand cattle will pasture there.

    Iranian Armenian activist Sarmen Shainjanian said after the Turkic
    nomadic tribes come to Armenia they will not go back and will build a
    school and a kinder-garten and will settle in Armenia for good.

    Another activist Gegham Galstyan said the Turkic Iranians may collect
    military secrets and report them to corresponding places.

    `This issue should have first of all been discussed with the residents
    of Syunik. The governor does not have right to go and sign anything
    and impose it on people. We have applied to the governor's office, we
    even applied to the National security, but all in vain,' he said,
    adding that they will not stop and will fight till the end to prevent
    the entrance of Turkic nomadic tribes to Armenia.




    From: A. Papazian
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