President of Artsakh attends conference dedicated to Tumanyan’s 150th birthday anniversary

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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan on February 19 attended a conference devoted to the 150th anniversary of renowned Armenian poet Hovhannes Toumanyan in Gandzasar's Matenadaran Scientific-Cultural Center, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

The conference has been organized by the Artsakh Union of Writers and Stepanakert's Grigor Narekatsi University.

The President highlighted the perpetuation of the memory of great Armenians stating with satisfaction that such events had become an integral part of the country's literary life.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS