Yesterday the musicians that always play music not far from the ropeway station of Tsakhkadzor were waiting for the opening of the third ropeway station. As soon as a car approached to the station, the musicians started to play and said: “this is dedicated to you”. But their business didn’t meet success yesterday because they learned that the authority representatives were not going up the hill to the newly built third station by ropeway, but by their cars…
The people on the street were disappointed too. But in a few minutes several tourists approached them and they started to play music and dance by saying “don’t care, everything is going to be fine”.
People had been informed beforehand that Robert Kocharyan would visit Tsakhkadzor at 13:00 and the opening would start just after his visit. But a lot of state officers had visited that place beforehand and were waiting for Kocharyan to arrive. As soon an Robert Kocharyan arrived he approached the stage and the person in charge of the ropeway construction, Ishkhan Zakaryan announced that Kocharyan was going to give a medal to one of the workers according to the RA Constitution Article 55, Subtext 16. Then Kocharyan presented envelopes with 200 K dram in each to some workers, as well as “thank you” letters to some other workers. “By using this ropeway of Tsakhkadzor we can seriously help develop our economy. This ropeway is modern. We did our best to have a new and modern ropeway station. Now we must do our best to assist the development of service fields in the surrounding areas”, -said Robert Kocharyan.
When going up the hill Kocharyan probably noticed that the forests were not thick and there were not many trees there. Concerning this he said: “We must also take care of environmental protection. I have talked to Ishkhan Zakaryan and we are going to plant trees here in order to protect the environment. All citizens of Tsakhkadzor must understand that each tree here is very important for Tsakhkadzor and for tourism development in Armenia”, -said Robert Kocharyan. Concerning the ropeway construction he said that they would add something new to this construction every year so that everyone knows that Armenia is a good country for sports and that they should visit this place.
Gagik Tsarukyan made a speech too (member of the National Assembly, businessman and the head of Armenian Olympic Committee) and said that the ropeway provided a good chance for tourism and economic development. “This was clear already when we opened the first part. After this opening a lot of sportsmen and skiers from the CIS came here for trainings. After their trainings here they won two golden medals and they had liked this place very much”, -said Gagik Tsarukyan. He also said: “I wish Kocharyan all the best and may he always be with us”.
Then Robert Kocharyan as a rule, cut the red ribbon for the opening. Then he took a seat and went up the ropeway. This time only Margar Ohanyan, Sergo Eritsyan, Ishkhan Zakaryan, Aram Harutyunyan, Kavalenko Shahgeldyan and several other state officers accompanied him. Serj Sargsyan, along with Hovik Abrahamyan, Armen Gevorgyan, Gagik Beglaryan, Andranik Manoukyan and some other people didn’t go up with the president.