Armenian PM attends festive events in Karabakh city

A delegation led by Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan on Friday was in Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) to take part in festive events dedicated to the city’s liberation, as well as  the Nagorno-Karabakh Army Day and the 70th anniversary of the USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War.

High-ranking officials from the two Armenian republics laid flowers at a tank monument symbolizing the historic victory, and the memorials to Nelson Stepanyan, a Soviet Armenian Bomber Pilot during World War II and Vazgen Sargsyan, a legendary commander during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, who later became Armenia’s minister of defense and prime minister.  On the sidelines of the celebrations, the torch symbolizing the Sixth Pan-Armenian Games was lit at the Shushi Cathedral of Christ the Holy Savior (aka Ghazanchetsots Cathedral) . The ceremony was led by Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, the prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church’s diocese  of Artsakh.

The official delegation also attended the opening of the photo exhibition “From Shushi to Shushi”.

A festive concert at the city’s Sports Square concluded the events.