The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office continues to lobby for a controversial gold-mining project in Armenia, openDemocracy can reveal.
Internal correspondence released under a freedom of information (FOI) request shows how the UK Embassy in Yerevan sought to discuss Lydian International’s $400m Amulsar gold mine with the Armenian prime minister’s office in 2020.
The UK has supported Armenia’s attempts to clean up its mining industry - long associated with corruption, pollution and poor environmental standards - and Lydian, originally a Jersey-registered company, was a flagship project in this responsible mining drive.
