YEREVAN. - Decision of Yerevan city mayor to dismantle kiosks and ban street trade in Yerevan will bring to reduction of demographic indicator of the city, said demographer Ruben Yeganyan to a press conference on Tuesday.

Yeganyan argues that this decision will entail negative consequences both in the context of demography and emigration.

“I would love to see our country developed and people practicing high level of living standards, so that we would not have street trade and kiosks on the streets of our capital. But we have to compare the desirable with the reality. Do we have the necessary recourses to go for this? Before making these kinds of decisions, city authorities should have come up with corresponding offers for employment. It is elementary that some of the people previously engaged in street trade or running kiosks should leave the country,” said the expert. ‘‘Of course there were people among them who were planning to get married, to have children but it is only natural that they will not go for it, deprived of livelihood. I do not rule out that once in grave social conditions, certain families should come apart. I wonder did anybody give a thought about all this before signing these documents.”