A new drinking water supply system, financed by the Swiss-based Sedrik Marten Fund, was inaugurated today in the Askeran village of Vardadzor.

 Jacques Marten, president of the fund’s council, told the opening ceremony attendees that his organization mostly builds water supply pipelines and that Vardadzor is the tenth village in Artsakh to receive one.

“New delegates have arrived in Artsakh with us and we hope that they too will participate in implementing future projects,” Marten said.

Village Mayor Samvel Saradjyan said that Vardadzor had experienced a potable water problem for many years and that, “today a vital problem had been solved.”

Artsakh Prime Minister Arayik Haroutyunyan was also present at the opening ceremony.