Senior Officials Visit Yerablur
ArmRadio.am
28.01.2008
On the occasion of the 16th anniversary of formation of the Armenian Army, RA President Robert Kocharyan today visited Yerablur Pantheon to pay homage to the memory of the soldiers of the liberation war in Artsakh. President Kocharyan was accompanied by the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Tigran Torosyan, Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan, Deputy Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, members of Government, NA Deputies, senior Officers. The President laid flowers at the memorials to Vazgen Sargsyan, Karen Demirchyan and soldiers that fell in the liberation war in Artsakh.
“I feel regret, pain and excitement every time I visit Yerablur,” PM Serge Sargsyan told journalists.
RA Defense Minister Michael Harutyunyan congratulated everyone on Army Day and noted that the Army grew from childhood to youth.
“Though a child, during the past 16 years our Army fulfilled the tasks posed to it: it won the war, developed and showed its power.” “The Army is strong, effective and is ready to defend the Armenian people, our state and the security of borders,” Michael Harutyunyan said.