President Sargsyan Congratulates the Nation on "Republic Day", Honoring Founding of First Republic in 1918

10:02, May 28, 2012

Dear Compatriots,                                                                                                  

I congratulate us all on the occasion of Republic Day.

May 28 has been much spoken and written about, and I am confident, it will be referred too many more times. And it is quite natural because it signifies an exceptional event which we had waited for a long time, which we had dreamed about for centuries and for which the best sons of our nation had sacrificed their lives. On that day, we had turned the wheel of history and set the right course. In fact, that momentous event had taken place much earlier; it had taken place in our mentality and political thinking, when the Armenians living in their homeland realized that we must live on our own land not as a community but as a state; we must fight not as fidais – freedom fighters, but as an Army.  Read more... (535 words)

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