Metz Ayroum Mayor: "Don't ask me, talk to my secretary"

00:08, July 20, 2012

Papik Aroushanyan has served as the mayor of Metz Ayroum, a village mostly populated by Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, for the past 15 years.

From our brief encounter, I got the clear impression that Mayor Aroushanyan was fed up and tired from the job.

Metz Ayroum is considered to be one of the poorer villages in Lori Marz. After driving around the fields I headed to the mayor's office at around 3pm for some information. The doors were locked.

I caught up with the mayor as he was driving through the village. I asked him what measures he had enacted to assist in the farming of village lands.  Read more... (226 words)

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