Stepanakert Commemorate First Chairman Of NKR Supreme Council Artur

STEPANAKERT COMMEMORATE FIRST CHAIRMAN OF NKR SUPREME COUNCIL ARTUR MKRTCHYAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.02.2010 20:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On February 16 NKR Parliament Speaker Ashot Ghulyan
accompanied by MPs visited the Memorial of Stepanakert and laid
flowers at the monument of the first Chairman of NKR Supreme Council
Artur Lazarian in connection with his birthday.

The event was attended by representatives of republic’s acting
leadership, friends and relatives of Artur Lazarian, as well as
representatives of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun in Artsakh, press office
of NKR NA reported.

Arthur Lazarian was born in 1959 in the district of Gadrut of NKAR.

He was a historian, director of the regional museum. Before Jan. 8,
1992 elections to the post of NKR Supreme Council chairman he was a
commander of self-defense detachment of Hadrut district. A veteran
of the Karabakh movement. Supporter of unconditional recognition of
NKR statehood. In the elections he was supported by the Radical Party
Dashnaktsutyun, claiming to political leadership in Nagorno Karabakh.

On February 16 Artur Lazarian would have turned 50 years.