EVENTS IN YEREVAN MARK BELARUS INDEPENDENCE DAY
Pan Armenian News
30.06.2005 07:54
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Embassy of Belarus in Armenia organizes
festivities due to its Independence Day. According to a press release,
an official reception on the occasion of the Belarus holiday will be
held today. July 3 – on the Independence Day, flowers will be laid to
monument to marshal, Soviet Union twice Hero H. K. Baghramyan. This
year the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
is also marked. The war was one against the threat of enslavement
and physical annihilation for the Belarus people. In June-July 1944
Belarus was fully liberated. Representatives of many nationalities
fought for its independence. These included the best representatives
of the Armenian people, many of which are awarded orders and medals,
as well as title of Soviet Union Hero for liberation of Belarus.
Owing to the resolute actions of the army, guerilla movement the
Belarus people preserved its ethnic identity.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress