ARMENPRESS

PRESIDENT OF NAGORNO KARABAKH VISITS MARTAKERT REGIONAL CENTER

STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 1, ARMENPRESS; On December 31 NKR President
Bako Sahakyan visited Martakert regional center and took part in a
ceremony of igniting a symbolic flare in connection with putting in
commission high pressure main gas pipeline. Central information
department of the office of NKR president told Armenpress that the
president underscored the importance of gasification of the Martakert
region considering it a solid basis for a steady growth.
Afterwards he participated in a ceremony of reopening in the town
of Martakert a memorial of active participant of the Second World War,
hero of the Soviet Union Temik Avtandilyan. The memorial was destroyed
during Azerbaijani occupation of Martakert during the Artsakh war.
Later on Bako Sahakyan visited parents of active participant of the
Artsakh war, famous commander Vladimir Balayan and congratulated them
on the New Year and Christmas.
On the same day the supreme commander-in-chief visited the front
line of the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan
armed forces and congratulated the servicemen on the New Year and
Christmas.
NKR prime minister Ara Harutyunyan, defense minister Movses
Hakobyan and other officials were accompanying the president.