Service of mourning for Armenian premier starts

Arminfo
27 Mar 07

Yerevan, 27 March: A service of mourning for Armenian Prime Minister
Andranik Margaryan started in his flat in Avan community at 1800 [1300 gmt].

A number of those who want to say farewell to the prime minister grows, our
correspondent reports.

All members of the government, members of the Republican Party [of Armenia]
and all MPs are attending the service. President Robert Kocharyan, Speaker and
deputy chairman of the Republican Party Tigran Torosyan, Defence Minister
and chairman of the board of the Republican Party Serzh Sargsyan, as well as
the leader of the Union of the Armenians in Russia, Ara Abrahamyan, also
arrived to say farewell to the prime minister.

Wreaths have been laid almost on the entire Sayat-Nova Street where the
prime minister used to live.

[Passage omitted: foreign delegations will arrive in Yerevan to attend the
funeral ceremony on 28 March]

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS