The legal suit launched by the Ecological Security and Defense NGO against the RA Ministry of Nature Protection started today in Administrative Court.

The group claims the Ministry has stood idly by while the River Voghj, which flows through Kapan, has been polluted from wastes dumped directly into it by Deno Gold Mining, the Kajaran Copper Molybdenum Plant and Armenia Water and Sewage.

At today’s hearing, Judge Arman Tovmasyan declared that the Ministry must prove that it has taken concrete steps to rectify the problem.

The next court session has been scheduled for April 14.