YEREVAN.- The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund fund is currently building a highly anticipated potable-water system in the city of Martuni, Artsakh.

The project is carried out thanks to the extraordinary financial support of Samvel Karapetyan, president of Tashir Group of Companies, a member of the fund’s Board of Trustees.

When the first phase of the project is completed by the end of this year, almost two-thirds of Martuni will have around-the-clock access to water.

The Martuni initiative is the second major water-infrastructure project in Artsakh to be realized mainly through the support of Samvel Karapetyan and the Karapetyan Brothers Company, headed by the benefactor, fund’s press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The first project of this type, also now underway, is the construction of Shushi City’s internal water network, financed by Russian-Armenian industrialists. The lion’s share of their contributions, totaling around U.S. $1 million, was provided by Samvel Karapetyan.

Today Karapetyan’s gift to the people of Artsakh has become all the more palpable in the form of the newly constructed Regional Hospital of Stepanakert.