FESTIVITIES ON OCCASION OF TRIPLE HOLIDAY HELD IN NK
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
May 10 2006
May 9 a triple holiday – the Victory Day, liberation of the town of
Shoushi and establishment of the NKR Defense Army – was celebrated
in the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
Servicemen of the NKR Defense Army participated in a solemn march in
the Stepanakert streets May 9, DE FACTO correspondent in Stepanakert
reports. Meetings with the veterans of the Great Patriotic and Artsakh
Wars, cultural-sport measures, photo and art exhibitions were held
in the Republic.
Thousands of the inhabitants of Stepanakert visited the Memorial
Complex and paid tribute to the memory of those who had died in
the Great Patriotic and Artsakh wars. The NKR President Arkady
Ghoukasyan, Chairman of the National Assembly Ashot Gulyan, Prime
Minister Anoushavan Danielyan and leader of the Artsakh Eparchy of
the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan came
here to honor the memory of the perished. RA Prime Minister Andranik
Margaryan and Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan arrived in Stepanakert
to participate in the festivities.
The NKR President Arkady Ghoukasyan’s message to the people runs,
in part, “May 9 is a great holiday for our country. We simultaneously
celebrate three important data for our people – the 14th Anniversary
of the Shoushi liberation, the NKR Defense Army Day and the great
holiday of the Victory the country that used to be our common gained
in the Great Patriotic War over the fascist Germany. This day we
recall all those who died in the battlefields and did not see the
liberated Motherland”.
Representatives of the NKR and RA leadership visited Shoushi, where
they put wreaths on a monument -tank near the town, monuments to the
hero of the Soviet Union Nelson Stepanyan and Vazgen Sargsyan.
Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan served solemn liturgy at the Church
of Khazanchetsots. In the evening a festive firework was held in the
NKR central square – the Revival Square.