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  Construction works of ropeway leading to Tatev monastery are at final stage July 30, 2010 - 16:15 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Head of construction works of the ropeway and infrastructures Artashes Ghazakhetsyan said that the construction works of the ropeway leading to Tatev monastery are at the final stage. Swiss experts have already installed the equipment. Now they implement wiring works, Ghazakhetsyan told journalists. “The works will be completed until September, after which we will launch the test stage, so that the ropeway is put into commission until October 16. A special commission will be invited from Europe to test the ropeway's safety. It will provide its conclusion on the ropeway's compliance with international standards,” said Ghazakhetsyan. A PanArmenian.Net correspondent reported from Tatev that the ropeway is 5.7km-long, with highest point at 330m. Its cable cars will be able to cover the distance to Tatev monastery complex during 11 minutes and 25 seconds. It will be the longest bidirectional ropeway in the world.  Top stories The Ministry said that almost 350 prisoners have been caught posting to Facebook via smuggled Web-enabled smartphone devices. On July 31, 1932, she was crowned Miss World despite competition from 27 countries, winning Turkey’s first title. 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage. Tigran Sargsyan: today we live in a period of internal contradictions that result in emergence of crisis.   |  Latest news U.S. Congressmen press Clinton to renounce her recent remarks on Genocide  At a recent department-wide meeting, Secretary of State mischaracterized the Armenian Genocide as a “historical debate.”U.S. Reps. Wolf, Chu commemorate Armenian massacre in Azerbaijan “Between 1988 and 1990, the Armenian population was the target of racially motivated pogroms in Azerbaijan,” Judy Chu said.Armenian place of worship demolished in Turkey Malatya Mayor Ahmet Çakır gave verbal permission for building the place of worship on orders by Malatya Governor Ulvi Saran.Lebanese Armenian MP thanks French envoy for genocide bill adoption Shant Janjanian a thank-you letter to the French envoy to Lebanon, Denis Pietton, for the bill that recently passed the Senate. |
