Referring to the press conferences on issues related to the construction of the River Getar held by CRD/TI Armenia on November 7 and by "Yerevanproject Institute'' CJSC on November 8 we hereby inform the following. CRD/TI Armenia calls in question the reconstruction project legitimacy of the Getar river-bed with a waste of huge sums and kindly disposed attitude of the government bodies regarding illegal actions and as a result, embezzlement of state budget especially in the period preceding the presidential elections in Armenia.

Lack of access to information, avoidance of comprehensive (including environmental) expertise, perplexing processes of decision making, non planned and hasty construction works a few months before the elections, continuation of illegal work and the tolerance of competent government bodies concerning illegality question the real purpose of the reconstruction of the River Getar.

The full text of the Statement with relevant groundings in Armenian