ON THE OCCASION OF FIRST REPUBLIC DAY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER TIGRAN TOROSIAN ISSUES CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE

ARMENPRESS
May 28, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 28, ARMENPRESS: On the Occasion of the First Republic
Day Parliament Speaker Tigran Torosian issued a congratulatory
message. According to the parliament press service, the message reads
as follows.

"Dear compatriots, 90 years ago our people who few years before that
experienced the first genocide of the past century, were able to
combine their divided strength and win the battles of Sardarapat,
Karakilisa and Aparan thanks to freedom loving spirit and unbending
will to restore their statehood.

Although the First Armenian Republic lived three years only, it gave
our people the strong spiritual charge due to which we were able at
the end of the 20-th century not only to restore our state but to
liberate also Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

I congratulate you on the occasion of the First Republic Day being
sure that our achievements are irreversible and we have no alternative
to the path of democracy and reforms that will take us to the country
dreamt of by our ancestors."