Ecologist Mary Khachatryan offers to convene a public discussion in Yerevan City hall to decide where to move the shops.

The issue of Mashtots Park will be discussed in the Public Council of Armenia on February 23, ecologist Karine Danielyan told in a news conference on February 21. She said during a few years Yerevan has turned into an ecological disaster zone and the construction ongoing in the capital killed Yerevan.

"Mashtots Park's issue is only a small element of a big problem. It is a green territory near which is a hospital. I understand that the mayor says it is a temporary solution, I believe him," she said.

Ecologist Mary Khachatryan said the demand of activists is legal, they want to have healthy environment.

"The City Hall has a right to temporary suspend the construction and discuss the issue. The shops may be placed in underground passage in the same territory," Khachatryan said.

She offered to suspend the construction, withdraw the policemen from the construction area and convene a public discussion in the City hall to decide where to move the shops.

"We will fight for the park till the end, even in conditions of frost," the ecologist said.

Architect Levon Igityan said placing of shops in the territory of the park is a temporary solution, no issue may be solved with anger.

February 20 in the evening the ecologists surrendered the territory to policemen. They say the construction lasted all night long, ignoring that there is a maternity house near it.