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  • NKR Will See Series of Festivities from May 8-9

    NKR Will See Series of Festivities from May 8-9

    14:34 - 08.05.10


    The Republic of Nagorno Karabakh is celebrating the 18th anniversary
    of the liberation of Shushi.

    Besides a governmental delegation from Armenia headed by the Chairman
    of the National Assembly of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan, the NKR is
    expecting some also guests from abroad who come to partake in the
    festivities on the occasion.
    NKR President's press officer Davit Babayan told Tert.am that a series
    of festivities will be held on May 8-9 across the country. The
    celebrations will end on May 9 by a concert to be held the Stepanakert
    stadium, the capital city of NKR.

    Press officer of the Defense Minister of NKR, Senor Hasratyan, told
    Tert.am that the festivities in NKR started early this morning with
    high-ranking military officers conducting lessons of courage in all
    public schools and highest educational institutions.

    The Ministry is expected also to convene a solemn session on the occasion.

    According to Hasratyan the celebrations will start by a ceremony of
    putting wreaths at the memorials built in different place in memory of
    those freedom fighters that was killed during the Artsakh war. Wreaths
    will be placed also at the memorial of Vazgen Sargsyan, former Defense
    Minister of Armenia, slaughtered in the National Assembly of Armenia
    on October 27, 1999, and also at the memorial of Nelson Stepanyan, an
    Armenian hero of the Great Patriotic War.

    A traditional visit is also expected to the historical town of Shushi
    where a liturgy will be offered at the Saint Ghazanchetsots church.

    A solemn house-warming ceremony of a new building for the families of
    the NKR military officers will be part of celebrations for May 9.

    Tert.am
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