Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Defense Ministry celebrates Women=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Day (photos)

Ahead of Women’s International Day, the Defense Ministry hosted ceremony to honor women’s role in the military.

Congratulating the servicewomen and female freedom fighters attending the event, Minister Seyran Ohanyan highly praised their role in the Nagorno-Karabakh liberation war and the present-day Armed Forces.

Under the minister’s decree, several servicewomen and female civil servants, as well as the mothers of three soldiers were honored with a memory medal dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the national Armed Forces. The mother of Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenia’s former prime minister and a Karabakh war hero gunned down during a terrorist attack at the National Assembly in 1999, was honored with a the Coat of Arms departmental medal.

Armenian News

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