ARMENIA MARKS INDEPENDENCE DAY
Armenpress
Sept 21, 2005
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS: Armenia celebrated today the
Independence Day, a holiday marking the September 21, 1991 referendum
in which the overwhelming majority of Armenians voted for secession
from the Soviet Union. Two days later Armenia’s first non-Communist
parliament passed the Declaration of Independence.
President Kocharian and a cohort of top government officials and
Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arkady Ghukasian began the official ceremonies
today by visiting the Yerablur military cemetery in a Yerevan outskirts
where hundreds of Armenians killed during the war with Azerbaijan
were buried.
Speaking to reporters prime minister Margarian said today’s Armenia
is an established state with a definite commitment to deeper economic
reforms, democratic transformation and international engagement.
“What remains is to make our state stronger, ensure its security and
address the pressing problems of the people, to create conditions for
thousands of Armenians who left the country to come back, ” he said.