Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is participating in celebrations of the 24th anniversary of declaration of the Republic of Artsakh.

Accompanied by Nagorno-Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan, an official Armenian delegation, who arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh to attend evens marking the 24th anniversary of declaration of the Republic of Artsakh, as well as by local residents and diasporic Armenians, Armenia’s leader marched from Stepanakert’s Revival Square to the city memorial complex.

Armenia’s leader paid tribute to the sons of the Armenian people who sacrificed their lives for Artsakh’s independence. He laid flowers at the tombs of the first chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Council Artur Mkrtchyan and heroes of the Artsakh war of liberation.

The Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh leaders also attended the opening of the Shushi branch of Armenian National Agrarian University.

In Shushi, the two Armenian states’ leaders visited the Yeznik Mozyan vocational training school, which has been constructed under the sponsorship of the France-based office of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, with the Nagorno-Karabakh government’s financial share.

Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Bako Sahakyan also attended the opening of a Tumo Center of Creative Technologies in Stepanakert.