On 2 September, Artsakh Republic President Arayik Harutyunyan partook at the festive events marking the 29th anniversary of the Artsakh Republic proclamation.

President Harutyunyan along with the Speaker of Armenian Parliament Ararat Mirzoyan, deputies and high level officials from the two countries visited the Stepanakert Memorial Complex and laid a wreath and flowers on the graves of freedom fighters perished for the independence and freedom of Artsakh and on the memorial of Arthur Mkrtchyan, first chairman of the NKR Supreme Council.