YEREVAN’S MAYOR VISITS MATERNITY WARDS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY

Tert
Sept 21 2009
Armenia

Yerevan’s mayor, Gagik Beglaryan, in honour of Independence Day in
Armenia, paid a visit to three maternity hospitals operating under city
hall’s supervision. The mayor congratulated those women who experienced
the joy of motherhood on a historically important day for Armenia:
Independence Day, which commemorates the reinstatement of the Republic
of Armenia as an independent country, after 70 years of Soviet rule

According to an announcement made by Yerevan City Hall, the mayor
expressed his confidence that the children would grow up in a safe
and peaceful country. He also distributed flowers to the new mothers
and gold crosses on chains to their newborn children.

First Deputy Mayor Taron Margaryan, Deputy Mayor Kamo Areyan and the
mayor’s advisors paid visits to the other seven maternity hospitals
operating in Yerevan.