ARMINFO News Agency
September 21, 2005

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISIT ERABLUR MEMORIAL

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 21. ARMINFO. The top political leadership of
Armenia visited the Erablur Memorial today to lay flowers to the
graves of national heros on occasion of the Day of Independence.

Attending the ceremony were Armenia’s President Robert Kocharyan,
Parliament Speaker Artur Bagdassaryan, Prime Minister Andranik
Margaryan, Defence Minister Serzh Sargsyan, Nagorno Karabakh Republic
President Arkady Goukassyan and other top officials.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Army Mikael Haroutyunyan
told journalists that a highly capable army has been created since
the victorious early 90s. “For me independence starts here from the
graves of my comrades,” Haroutyunyan said.