13:15, 28 January, 2013

YEREVAN, JANUARY 28, ARMENPRESS:  Armenian top leadership on the occasion of the 21th anniversary of formation of the Armed Forces of Armenia visited Yereblur military pantheon. The President of the Republic of Armenia, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Serzh Sargsyan, His Holiness, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, Nagorno Karabakh Republic  President Bako Sahakyan¸ Artsakh Diocese head Pargev Archbishop Martirosyan, National Assembly speaker Hovik Abrahamyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, NKR Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan, and high ranking military officials laid flowers on the graves of Vazgen Sargsyan, Andranik Ozanyan, laid wreath on the mamorial commemorating the memory of freedom fighters, Armenpress reports.

Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan came forth in  the briefing with the journalists ”Armenian Army Day is a national holiday. Our army, passing 21 years of path has guaranteed Armenia’s people security. I wish our people peace and assure the army is ready to confront  all provocations ”. Besides Minister Ohanyan congratulated soldiers standing in the frontier line, as well as victims’ families.