PERSONAL EXAMPLE OF VETERANS OF GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IS IMPORTANT FOR
PATRIOTIC UPBRINGING OF YOUTH, ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SAYS

YEREVAN, MAY 7, NOYAN TAPAN. "If there had not been your example during
the Great Patriotic war – the example of our grandfathers, in all
likelihhod we would have failed to defend our homeland, defend our
independence and territorial integrity in our recent history," the
Armenian president Serge Sargsian stated when receiving a group of
members of the Committee of Great Patriotic War Veterans and the
Council of Veterans on May 7. The president congratulated the veterans
on Victory Day and expressed his gratitude for the work they have done
after the war in order to bring up and educate the young generation.
"Your personal example is extremely important for patriotic upbringing
of the youth," he said.

According to the RA president’s press service, during the talk, the
veterans and discussed a number of social security-related problems
with the president. They said that state attention to and care of
veterans have notably increased in recent years. S. Sargsian assured
the veterans that the problems raised by them will get prompt solution.