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    FESTIVITIES ON OCCASION OF TRIPLE HOLIDAY HELD IN NK

    DeFacto Agency, Armenia
    May 10 2006

    May 9 a triple holiday - the Victory Day, liberation of the town of
    Shoushi and establishment of the NKR Defense Army - was celebrated
    in the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

    Servicemen of the NKR Defense Army participated in a solemn march in
    the Stepanakert streets May 9, DE FACTO correspondent in Stepanakert
    reports. Meetings with the veterans of the Great Patriotic and Artsakh
    Wars, cultural-sport measures, photo and art exhibitions were held
    in the Republic.

    Thousands of the inhabitants of Stepanakert visited the Memorial
    Complex and paid tribute to the memory of those who had died in
    the Great Patriotic and Artsakh wars. The NKR President Arkady
    Ghoukasyan, Chairman of the National Assembly Ashot Gulyan, Prime
    Minister Anoushavan Danielyan and leader of the Artsakh Eparchy of
    the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan came
    here to honor the memory of the perished. RA Prime Minister Andranik
    Margaryan and Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan arrived in Stepanakert
    to participate in the festivities.

    The NKR President Arkady Ghoukasyan's message to the people runs,
    in part, "May 9 is a great holiday for our country. We simultaneously
    celebrate three important data for our people - the 14th Anniversary
    of the Shoushi liberation, the NKR Defense Army Day and the great
    holiday of the Victory the country that used to be our common gained
    in the Great Patriotic War over the fascist Germany. This day we
    recall all those who died in the battlefields and did not see the
    liberated Motherland".

    Representatives of the NKR and RA leadership visited Shoushi, where
    they put wreaths on a monument -tank near the town, monuments to the
    hero of the Soviet Union Nelson Stepanyan and Vazgen Sargsyan.

    Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan served solemn liturgy at the Church
    of Khazanchetsots. In the evening a festive firework was held in the
    NKR central square - the Revival Square.
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