Top officials visit Yerablur Military Pantheon on Army Day

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YEREVAN, JANUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. The high-ranking officials of Armenia visited today the Yerablur Military Pantheon on the 30^th anniversary of the foundation of the Armenian Army to pay tribute to the memory of all heroes fallen for the defense of the Homeland.

Deputy Prime Ministers Mher Grigoryan and Hambardzum Matevosyan, Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan, Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and other officials laid a wreath at the monument honoring the memory of heroes, as well as flowers at the tombs of soldiers.

Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan, Vice Speakers and a number of lawmakers also honored the memory of heroes at the Military Pantheon.

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