TRIBUTE OF RESPECT PAID TO MEMORY OF 1999 TERRORISM VICTIMS IN PARLIAMENT YARD

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. RA National Assembly deputies, staff
representatives and journalists accredited at the Parliament paid
tribute of respect on October 27 to memory of 8 statesmen-politicians
became victims of terrorism committed on the same day 7 years
ago. Wreaths and flowers were laid to the monument erected in the yard
of the Parliament. It perpetuates memory of NA Chairman Karen
Demirchian, Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsian, NA Deputy Speakers Yuri
Bakhshian and Ruben Miroyan, Minister for Operative Issues Leonard
Petrosian, deputies Armenak Armenakian, Henrik Abrahamian and Mikayel
Kotanian died in 1999 in the conference hall of the Parliament.

"Irrespective of the fact that 7 years passed after this tragedy, but
people who knew victims of that terrorism, who worked with them,
especially who was at the Parliament, in the hall on that tragic day,
I’m sure that will bear during their whole life both pain and suffers
that they have had in that hall," NA Speaker Tigran Torosian said to
journalists. In his words, the most important is to make consequences
for such a tragedy never takes place in the world from now on, in the
basis of which, in his opinion, was spite and hatred. "People who died
on that severe day, did not live end in itself, lived for the sake of
ideas, for the sake of programs, for the sake of principles, and the
greatest tribute for them, I think, will be development of Armenia,
that’s, implementation of those programs, ideas and goals which the
victims of that severe day professed," the NA Speaker said.