SERGE SARGSIAN: “MAY 9, BEING A DOUBLE HOLIDAY FOR OUR NATION, IS
CORDIAL TO EVERY ARMENIAN FAMILY”

YEREVAN, APRIL 13, NOYAN TAPAN. An enlarged session of the
Government’s Committee on organizing celebrations dedicated to the
60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held at
the RA Defence Ministry headed by Serge Sargsain, the Chairman of the
Committee, the Defence Minister. Regional governors of all the marzes
of the republic, heads of numerous departments, responsible persons
for organizing and holding the event were present at the session. As
Colonel Seiran Shahsuvarian, the RA Defence Ministry’s Press Secretary
informed Noyan Tapan, the process of holding celebrations dedicated to
the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was
discussed at the session. On the whole, approving works done up to
date, those present made a number of proposals concerning holding
events up to the mark. On behalf of 9015 veterans of the Patriotic War
now alive in Armenia, Major General Rafik Karapetian, the Chairman of
the Council of Veterans’ Union of Labor, Armed Forces and Legal Bodies
of the Great Patriotic War, represented their proposals and
particularly the request addressed to the Yerevan Mayor to name a
school in Yerevan after General Safarian, to which Mayor Yervand
Zakharian responded that the issue will get its solution during a
week. Presenting the list of TV and radio broadcasts during the year,
Aleksan Harutiunian, the Chairman of Public TV and Radio Company’s
Council informed about remarkable films, being shot at “Yerevan”
studio of TV films, telling about Armenian soldiers burried in
Europe. Academician Fadey Sargsian, the President of the National
Academy of Sciencies, expressed in his speech deep appreciation to the
RA President, RA Government and particularly to the Defence Ministry,
to those present for approaching organization of anniversary
celebrations of the Great Patriotic War with great warmth and
readiness, emphasizing that it is more than necessary not for veterans
but for the young generation, directed to education of its military
patriotic soul. Summ! ing up re sults of the meeting, Serge Sargsian
mentioned: “I am sure that May 9, being a double holiday for our
nation, is cordial to every Armenian family. And I am more sure that
proper holding of the glorious holiday is provided by tender-hearted
and affecting approach of each of us to the work.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress