PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARKISIAN AND OTHER GOVERNMENT MINISTERS REMEMBER FORMER PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK MARGARIAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 12, ARMENPRESS; Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian, government ministers and other high-ranking officials visited today Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan to remember former prime minister Andranik Margarian who would have become 57 today.
They laid flowers at his grave. President Serzh Sarkisian, members of the Republican Party, of which Margarian was chairman and his family members will pay their tribute to Andranik Margarian later today.
Andranik Margarian died of heart attack on March 25, 2007 at the age of 56. Margarian was the longest serving Armenian prime minister. He was first appointed to the post in 2000 and then headed the coalition government after the 2003 parliamentary elections.