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    Emil Lazarian
  • 2 years ago
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Flags fly half-staff, book of condolence opened in all embassies abroad as Armenia mourns victims of Yerevan explosion

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 11:26,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 17, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan instructed all Armenian diplomatic and consular representations to open book of condolences as Armenia is mourning those killed in the August 14 market explosion in Yerevan, his spokesperson Vahan Hunanyan said. 

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ordered national days of mourning to be declared August 17-18 in memory of the victims of the Surmalu market explosion.

Flags fly half-staff and advertisements and entertainment programs are not broadcast during national days of mourning.

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