On December 9th, members of the "Miatsum Initiative" traveled to the town of Ijevan to have a public lecture with local residents entitled "The liberated territory of Armenia and the future of the Armenian state". Also on the agenda was a screening of Tigran Khzmalyan's film regarding the issues of the liberated territories and of Javakhk. However the Mayor of Ijevan refused to respond in writing to the petition of National Assembly Deputy Zaruhi Postanjyan requesting the use of the town's cultural house auditorium as a venue for the event. Also, starting a day before the public meeting, local police and National Security Service (NSS) employees took moves to prevent the gathering of Ijevan residents at the Fountain Square. Finding the doors to the cultural house locked, members of the "Miatsum Initiative" began an impromptu meeting with residents at the square. Those addressing the assembled crowd with the use of a hand-held megaphone included Zaruhi Postanjyan, Alek Yenikomshyan, Aleksandr Kananyan and Grizelda Ghazaryan. The speakers reflected on the moves afoot to concede the territories and the tragic consequences that would result from such a move, including strategic imperatives why such was an notion was impermissible. "Miatsum" members relate how the police and NSS forces once again tried to break up the impromptu gathering and that plainclothes instigators had been infiltrated into the crowd. Despite the efforts of law enforcement to impede the rally "Miatsum" recounts that it nevertheless took place in an mutual atmosphere of solidarity and cordiality with Ijevan residents.