Panorama.am
14:37 28/05/2008
P. HAYRIKYAN: SIGN OF 1918 AND 1988 MAY 28
Today the president of Union of National
Self-determination Paruyr Hayrikyan organized a
special meeting with the journalists. The press
conference organized by him was devoted to the Day of
Republic and was conducted in the Republic Square. He
commented on the idea gathering in the square as the
three symbols of our country are situated there: the
government, ministry of Foreign Affairs and historic
first national assembly is not far from that square.
-May 28 has two important signs for us – both May 28-s
of 1918 and 1988,- he said. According to him we should
celebrate the Day of Independence on 28 May and not on
21 September and that day could be signed as the day
of national self-determination.
-28 May is our day of independence. On 26 and 27
correspondently Georgia and Azerbaijan have celebrated
their Independence Days,- said Hayrikyan. According to
him due to arbitrary activities of our authorities of
90th we celebrate our Independence Day on 21 September
and prolong the historic facts of our 80 years of
independence. -Armenian rural inhabitants and
politicians living without state for 600 years were
thinking not about republic but freedom,- he said.
The other sign notified by Hayrikyan was that in 28
May 1988 National Self-determination together with
Movses Georgisyan and Mekhak Gabrielyan has risen
Armenian flag against -Karabakh Committee-.
Source: Panorama.am