On 26 February Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan visited Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and met his Holiness Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.

The President acknowledged the role of the Armenian Apostolic Church from the viewpoint of strengthening the independent Armenian statehood, cementing the Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora trinity, as well as maintaining the Armenian national identity.

Primate of the Artsakh Diocese Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, and a number of supreme hierarchs of the Armenian Apostolic Church partook in the meeting.