NKR PRESIDENT VISITED SHUSHI
Laura Grigorian

Azat Artsakh Tert
Dec 13 2007
Nagorno Karabakh Rep.

On December 12th, a visit of the NKR President Bako Sahakian pursued
such aim – to get acquainted with acting cultural hearths and their
activity and work out programs for broadening it in future. The NKR
Prime Minister A.Haroutyunian and the leaders of interested departments
of the Government accompanied the NKR President.

Bako Sahakian and the members of the group were in the gallery of
ancient Shushi, in youthful and dramatic theatres, as well as "Ervand
Manarian" puppet show, got acquainted with building conditions and
personnel chances of the above-mentioned hearths.

According to the Minister of Culture and Youth N.Gasparian, the
Government has for an object to centralize all the cultural hearths in
one of the ancient buildings of Shushi, which has normal conditions
of life and where is possible to stimulate cultural activity. By
assurance of N.Gasparian, coming future it will be already possible
to speak about cultural real life of Shushi, which unfortunately
doesn’t exist today.

The last point of the visit of B.Sahakian was a newly built bus
station. The president here also got acquainted with conditions of
the building.