Street trading banned
Armenia Liberty reports that authorities Authorities in Yerevan began on Friday enforcing a fresh ban on street trade in agricultural produce and other foodstuffs which is seen as failing to meeting basic sanitary standards.
“It is impossible to immediately uproot the street trade that has existed for the last 15 years. But we must try to gradually address this problem,” Yerevan’s Deputy Mayor Arman Sahakian told RFE/RL.
Sahakian said police and district administrations have been instructed to free all city sidewalks from illegal traders. But he admitted that many of them have no other source of income.
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How am I supposed to pick up a cucumber on my way home now? Argh!
Comment by k8t — 1/18/2005 @ 11:45 pm