Dear Mr. Meshchyan, Do You Have Anything to Say to the Yerevan Residents About Why Nothing Happened? - Naira Zohrabyan

If we are serious, dear Mr. Meshchyan, things don’t work like this—"I came, saw, promised, did nothing, and left." Do you have anything else to say to the residents of Yerevan, whether they supported your political team unconditionally or not, about how it came to be that in reality, nothing happened and you and your team only managed to produce yet another meaningless façade?

This was written by the Prosperous Armenia Party MP Naira Zohrabyan on her Facebook page:

“Attention, the doors are closing; the next station is ‘Ajapnyak’. After the resignation of Yerevan's chief architect Arthur Meshchyan, an inexplicable musical intermission began on social media. Everyone, as true Facebookers, felt compelled to post trite farewells accompanied by Meshchyan's songs, especially the trending piece—‘Where Were You, God?’. As if to say, ‘Where are You, God, that such a person is resigning, and You have not uttered a word?’ Maybe Arthur Meshchyan is a good ‘complex’ singer; perhaps he is also a good architect. I don’t know, but I don’t argue with professionals. However, as a citizen of the Republic of Armenia and also as a former candidate for the Mayor of Yerevan, whose team presented a serious plan to make Yerevan a more comfortable city to live in—not just through slides and flashy brochures but by placing concrete agreements with specific investors on the table with a timeline relating to the city’s waste management, electric transport, elevators for the deceased, city greening, among many other realistic projects that had substantial funding attached to them—I want to pose a few light questions to Arthur Meshchyan in a very specific manner, devoid of emotions or pleas of ‘where were You, God?’

Dear ‘complex’ and esteemed architect, the citizen of Yerevan rejected our program to make Yerevan clean, bright, green, and free of rubbish because the noise of ‘dumb-dumb-hoo’ at the time drowned out any rational thought. Then you came and immediately engaged several large-scale projects: one was to complete the design work for two new metro stations in Ajapnyak by the end of 2019 and begin construction, and also to initiate the works for a new 32-seater cable car by the end of 2019, connecting the Masiv neighborhood to the center as a form of urban transport. Not to mention that you intended to extend one line of that cable car to Victory Park as well. I won’t remind you of the minor projects you discussed during your press conference after your first 100 days in office. I only remind you of these two ‘strategic’ projects that, as you said in that conference, were certainly going to be achieved.

Is there anyone living in Ajapnyak who is using the metro station ‘Ajapnyak’ to return home? If there is, please inform me where the metro station ‘Ajapnyak’ is. By the way, according to Meshchyan, there should be two stations because he promised two metro stations would be built in Ajapnyak. And if there is anyone who has descended from Masiv to the center using Meshchyan’s cable car, please also let us know so we can be informed. So, if we are serious, dear Mr. Meshchyan, it doesn’t work like this—‘I came, saw, promised, did nothing, and left.’ Do you have anything else to say to the residents of Yerevan, whether they supported your political team unconditionally or not, about how it came to be that in reality, nothing happened and you and your team produced yet another round of empty formats?”