85th ANNIVERSARY OF MOUNTAINOUS ARMENIA MARKED ONLY IN SYUNIK REGIONAL CENTER

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 27 2006

KAPAN, APRIL 27, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On April 26, Syunik
Governor Surik Khachatrian and other high-ranking officials, Chairman
of Board of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Kapan territorial
organization Romik Sargsian, Chairman of the Syunyats Artsivner youth
NGO Khachik Asrian visited Garegin Nzhdeh’s memorial complex in Kapan
where they laid flowers and wreaths paying the tribute of their respect
to the memory of the Mountainous Armenia’s founder and marking the 85th
anniversary of the Mountainous Armenia. The 2nd Zangezur Congress held
on April 26 1921 in Tatev proclaimed the autonomous Syunik independent
renaming it Mountainous Armenia. Zangezur, Vayots Dzor (Daralagyaz)
and Nagorno Karabakh were included in it. The town of Goris became
the capital of the Mountainous Armenia. Sparapet Garegin Nzhdeh was
elected the Prime Minister and the right to appoint the members of
the new government was reserved for him.