NKR PRESIDENT ORDERED THAT INFRASTRUCTURES IN REPUBLIC REGIONS WHICH SUFFERED FROM FLOOD BE RESTORED IN SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME

DeFacto Agency
July 11 2008
Armenia

On July 10 Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakian held a
meeting, in the course of which the situation that had been created
in Shahumian and Martuni regions after flood was discussed.

According to the Central Department of Information under the NKR
President, Bako Sahakian gave a number of instructions to the heads
of appropriate organs, in part, mentioned the necessity to restore
the infrastructures in the shortest possible time.

The NKR President also stated the necessity to carry out design works
to expand roads and raise their security level.

The NKR PM Ara Harutyunian and other officials attended the meeting.

To remind, on July 9 Tartar River, flowing through Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic Shahumian and Martakert regions and falling into Sarsang
Reservoir, burst its banks and paralyzed rural communities’ life.

The river swept off all coastal kitchen-gardens, cornfields, and potato
and onion crops. In all, 6 hectares of cultivated land have been
damaged. Water also covered 18 hectares of Nor Getashen community’s
ploughed field, uprooted huge trees, fell electric poles, as a result
of which some rural communities have been deprived of water. Here and
there rough streams of Tartar destroyed the road connecting regions’
villages with Martakert and Stepanakert. As a result Shahumian region’s
villages turned into islands.

After signal received on July 9 from regional administrations’ heads,
NKR governmental delegation headed by Armo Tsaturian, Vice Premier, NKR
Minister of Agriculture, left for the scene of incident to familiarize
itself with the situation, calculate damage and verify actions to be
undertaken to eliminate the element’s consequences.

Yesterday, during the whole day, the delegation accompanied by
journalists visited the suffered communities of Martakert and
Shahumian regions.

To note, in the second half of the day Base Metals Company carried
out works on the road’s temporary clearing with heavy equipment.