Petition signed by 4,053 Gyumri residents sent to premier

A petition calling for returning frescoes by prominent Armenian artist Minas Avetisyan to Gyumri has been sent to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan by a Gyumri NGO.

The petition has been signed by 4,053 residents of this second-largest city of Armenia.

A government initiative to remove the frescoes from Gyumri triggered an outrage among the city's residents.

The petition is open for more signatories at: http://shirakcentre.org/hy/lurer/973-shirak-centre-ngo.