Grigor Emin-Teryan, Lragir.am
When Armenia became independent, its leadership and the rich people started to visit its neighboring countries and became sure that the desert is not so terrible, as the foreign propaganda tried to make it. Just the contrary, they found out that five star hotels may be built in the deserts, trees may be planted on their roofs and in their halls, and they may spend marvelous time in restaurants and nightclubs. It is not obligatory to have reserves for drinking water as big as the Sevan Lake: sweet water may be taken from the sea, from dirty rivers or from abroad. In the last case, one may become like the astronauts, who drink their own urine, which after cleaning becomes the best drinking water.
It was found out God situated the oil and gas reserves in such desert zones, and that the Dead Sea is more profitable with its mud than the Sevan Lake with its sweet water and reserves of fish, which turned out not to be endless.
So, only those, who did not live in five star hotels and did not visit the rich shops of deserts, may be terrified by the desert and storage lakes. And who has been there, who has seen the belly dancing and used the service of girls from different countries, know that a paradise may be created in desert. And the unconscious part of the Armenians, who make money sitting on money, the conscious part of the Armenian found the best way of making money: they destroy green places and built objects, which make money. And those trees, which cannot be cut down yet, bear a thorough trimming work, using the branches of the trees as material for making barbecue.
Sevan will be changed too, when a gold-mining plant will be built there. The water of the lake, which is not rich of fish today, will enrich with chemical elements, which will make its mud therapeutic and Armenia will have its own Dead Sea.
Seeing how that territory is turning into a desert, God will appreciate the efforts of our citizens and will create oil and gas reserves.
The border disputes will be solved too.
Driving through Lori from Georgia to Armenia, one has a long to pass until the Georgian nature becomes Armenian. The greenery confuses the Georgians and they think that these territories once belonged to them. But thanks to projects, such as Teghut, this mistake will be corrected: straight from the border it will be seen where Georgia is with its green territories and where Armenia is with its deserts. Even pilots and astronauts will see the difference.
Azerbaijan will renounce its territorial complaints too.
And the Yerevan residents already feel the presence of the desert, they enjoy the sandstorm and sand drifting snow, hot during the day and cold at night.
It is a pity we have lost the 9/10 part of our historic territories. Otherwise, we would not have an ordinary desert of 29 thousand square km, but a from sea to sea desert.
June 12, 2009