On December 14, 2010, Sona Ayvazyan, Member of Teghut Defense Group and Chair of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center attended and addressed an international conference on "Environmental Security of the Plan to Exploit Teghut Copper-Molybdenum Mine" at Yerevan's Congress Hotel. Initiated by Teghut Defense Group and Georgian Green Alternative NGO, representatives of Armenian and Georgian state agencies, international organizations and international conventions, as well as those from mining companies, financial institutions, and NGOs, independent experts and journalists were invited to the conference.

The aim of the conference was to uncover and discuss the concerns of experts and NGOs connected to the Teghut mine, which is located in the cross-border Debed River bed, in an area prone to earthquakes and landslides. A trip to Teghut to show the area affected by mining was organized prior to the conference.