The office says about 12 hectares have been cleared since December 2025. It values the 41 recovered parcels at no less than $1,696,000 and says they have returned to state and Sevan National Park possession and use.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office says approximately 12 hectares of recreational land along Lake Sevan have been cleared of illegal structures through prosecutorial intervention since December 2025. It also says 41 shoreline parcels, worth at least $1,696,000, have been returned to the possession and use of the Armenian state and Sevan National Park.
Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan presented the cumulative results at a COP17 environmental panel in Yerevan on 29 October 2026. Armenpress published the office’s account. The figures describe work over time, rather than recoveries completed on the day of the panel.
On 11 December 2025, Vardapetyan announced that prosecutors had begun work to return shoreline properties to the state that the office said had been transferred or leased in violation of the law.
The office says prosecutors used their powers to protect state interests to ask Sevan municipality and Sevan National Park to demolish unauthorized shoreline structures and restore the land to its former condition. Those requests led to administrative proceedings and demolition decisions.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said the requests concerned unauthorized structures on 34 shoreline parcels and led to 23 demolition decisions. In a separate enforcement update, it reported that more than 20 structures had been demolished on 11 parcels. Vardapetyan warned that expanded economic activity in specially protected natural areas must not lead to improper land use, degradation of natural landscapes or harm to the public interest.
In a separate enforcement update, the office said Sevan National Park had terminated 2 contracts following prosecutors’ requests.
Vardapetyan described a guiding principle of the work as keeping specially protected natural areas, including green spaces, out of private ownership because they belong to Armenia’s present and future generations.
Armenia’s Prosecutor’s Office says successful court claims since December 2025 have returned land around Lake Sevan to state possession and the possession and use of Sevan National Park.
For one shoreline contract granting development rights, Armenia’s Environment Ministry told prosecutors it had sent the company a proposal to end the agreement. The ministry said termination would be pursued through the courts if the company rejected the proposal.
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