18:00, 29 January 2011

Mayor of Yerevan to meet street vendors

On instruction of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, on February 7, the Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan will meet representatives of street vendors, who are protesting against the decision of the Mayoralty to ban the trade in the streets of the city, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the city administration.

The newly appointed Mayor of the Armenian capital Karen Karapetyan has decided to prohibit the street trade and offered the vendors to work at marketplaces, arguing that the trading business in the city should be somehow ordered.

The Mayor's decision caused discontent of street vendors, who began the protest at the Mayoralty demanding to lift the ban. Some of them even urged Karapetyan to resign.

Many of the protesters said that trading places at markets are expensive, ranging from 1 to 5 thousand drams (1 US dollar = 364 drams), depending on the amount of goods and the place of trading, in particular, whether it is in the crowded place (on passage) or, on the opposite, in the dead end.

Author: Lylyt Ovanisyan

Source: CK correspondent