RA leadership visits Andranik Margarian's grave on occasion
of second anniversary of his death
25-03-2009 17:30:00 | Armenia | Politics
YEREVAN, MARCH 25, NOYAN TAPAN. The second anniversary of
former RA Prime Minister, former Chairman of the Republican
Party of Armenia Andranik Margarian was marked on March 25. On
that occasion RA President Serzh Sargsyan, NA Speaker Hovik
Abrahamian, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian, other high-ranking
officials visited A. Margarian's grave in Komitas Town Pantheon.
Country's leadership, many members of the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia laid flowers to A. Margarian's grave. A requiem
was served on A. Margarian's grave.
"Andranik Margarian dreamt that the authorities will serve the
people and with his own example tried to liquidate the border
between an official and a citizen. And I think that by doing it
we all will be able to build the country he dreamt of," Yerevan
Mayor Gagik Beglarian told journalists.
Gagik Minasian, the Chairman of the RA NA Finance-Credit
and Budget Committee, said that A. Margarian treated with
complete devotion his homeland and people, which for him was in
the first place. Besides, according to G. Minasian, A.
Margarian had an inflexible will-power for solving the problems
set before him and at the same time was a very considerate
friend, he never mixed his personal relationships with state
affairs.