ARMENIA PAYS LAST TRIBUTE TO ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK MARGARYAN
Arminfo
2007-03-28 15:34:00
Today Armenia paid the last tribute to Prime Minister Andranik
Margaryan.
An ArmInfo correspondent reports that Archbishop Navasard Kchoyan,
Locum Tenens of the Ararat Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
made a prayer near A.Margayan’s grave at Pantheon after Komitas. During
a short mourning meeting, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Tigran
Torosyan emphasized that A.Margaryan will enter the history of
independent Armenia as an outstanding statesman, politician and party
worker as he has headed the Republican Party of Armenia for 10 years
and led the Armenian Government for 7 years. During this period, great
economic progress was registered in Armenia, and the RPA became one of
the leading political parties of the country. Despite the bad weather,
thousands of people came to say farewell and pay a last tribute to
their prime minister, T.Torosyan said.
Present at A.Margaryan’s funeral were Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, Head of the Constitutional
Court Gagik Haroutyunian, as well as ministers, deputies, ambassadors
and foreign delegations.
A.Margaryan died of infarction on March 25.