KOCHARIAN COMMEMORATES EARTHQUAKE’S VICTIMS

ArmenPress
Dec 7 2004

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: Armenia marked today the 16-th
anniversary of the 1988 catastrophic earthquake that claimed the
lives of 25,000 people and caused enormous material damage to its
northwestern regions. Senior government officials, headed by president
Robert Kocharian, traveled today to the town of Gyumri to take part
in commemoration of the memory of the dead.

President Robert Kocharian and other top officials laid flowers at
the monument erected in memory of the quake’s victims and attended
a mass in a local church.