{"id":4411,"date":"2016-10-03T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armecofront.net\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2016-10-28T23:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:35:58","slug":"a-petition-has-started-on-change-org-against-the-gold-mine-exploitation-in-amulsar-with-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.armecofront.net\/en\/a-petition-has-started-on-change-org-against-the-gold-mine-exploitation-in-amulsar-with-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"A Petition has Started on Change.org against the Gold Mine Exploitation in Amulsar (with updates)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Together with local and international organizations Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PAEF) civil initiative has started\u00a0a petition on change.org<\/a> with the demand to stop gold mine exploitation in Amulsar and cease funding \u201cLydian International\u201d offshore company.<\/p>\n

We would like to ask Sevan, Jermuk residents and whoever is\u00a0concerned about the future of Armenia and its ecological security to go to the petition site<\/a>, learn about the risks, sign and circulate the call to stop the dangerous project in\u00a0Amulsar.<\/p>\n

The demands mentioned in the petition are directed to Armenia\u2019s prime-minister Karen Karapetyan, president of World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim, CEO of International Finance Corporation Philippe Le Hou\u00e9rou, president of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development\u00a0Suma Chakrabarti, private major investors Orion Mine Finance and Resource Capital Funds.<\/p>\n

Organizations that would like to join this initiative can contact us at armecofront@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Organizations that have joined so far are below:<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Greens Union of Armenia
\n2. Environmental Public Alliance
\n3. “Environmental Public Society” NGO
\n4. “Ecological Academy” NGO
\n5. “The A.D.Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Protection Center” NGO
\n6. “Environmental Sustainability Assistance Center” NGO
\n7. “Jermuk Development Center” NGO
\n8. “Public Diplomacy” Charitable NGO
\n9. “Center for Community Mobilization and Support” NGO
\n10. Green Party of Armenia
\n11. “Biosofia” NGO
\n12. “BLEJAN” Environmental, Social and Business NGO
\n13. Association \u201cFor Sustainable Human Development\u201d
\n14. \u201cSustainable Development\u201d NGO
\n15. “Martuni Women\u2019s Community Council” NGO
\n16. Haik Project – USA
\n17. moretreeslessassholes.org environmental website – Belgium
\n18. “Asociaci\u00f3n Armenios” – Barcelona, Spain
\n19. “Armenian Renaissance” Diaspora Movement’s New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Belgium chapters
\n20. “Third Nature” NGO
\n21. Progress of Gyumri\u201d CDCS NGO
\n22. \u201cCenter for Consumers\u2019 Support\u201d NGO
\n23. Shogher Union\u201d NGO
\n24. \u201cArmenian Constitutional Rights Protection Center\u201d NGO
\n25. \u201cKhariskh\u201d NGO of Persons with Disability in Syunik
\n26. “Minasian” Health Charity Foundation NGO
\n27. “Armhiking” Tourism Center NGO
\n28\u2024<\/em><\/p>\n

The text of the petition in Armenian and English can be found on the petition site<\/a>. Below is its French version:<\/p>\n

Le gouvernement ill\u00e9gitime de l’Arm\u00e9nie, avec le soutien direct des institutions priv\u00e9es et internationales qui prot\u00e8gent les int\u00e9r\u00eats du capital international, continue \u00e0 ignorer les nombreuses alarmes, oppositions et plaintes des citoyens d’Arm\u00e9nie et continue de pousser en avant un projet d’une mine d’or situ\u00e9e juste \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de Jermuk – une r\u00e9gion c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour ses eaux min\u00e9rales.<\/p>\n

Voici ce que l’activit\u00e9 de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 ‘offshore’ “Lydian International” ferait en 10 ans :<\/p>\n