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  06, 2013

  President Serzh Sargsyan’s opening remarks at the National Security Council meeting   Good afternoon, Esteemed colleagues, at our today’s meeting, we will discuss issues related to the energy security and institutional strengthening of the local-self-governance. These are important issues. We will continue area by area to find solutions which will enhance the entire process of our state building and will promote the creation of a smoothly and coherently functioning system. Today, difficulties are plenty in Armenia. Nobody argues that. However it is also...
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  05, 2013

  Address by President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on occasion of the Republic day Your Holiness! Generals, officers and soldiers! Dear brothers and sisters! I cordially congratulate you on the occasion of the Republic Day! 95 years ago at Gharakilisa, Bash-Aparan and particularly here, in Sardarapat, we were put to a fatal test. It was a nationwide test for old and young, clergy and military, Dashnaks and Communists, officials and peasantry. All of us. In the last patch of historic Armenia, the last handful of Armenians living in their Fatherland were...
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  05, 2013

  Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan at the meeting with the members of the new government Dear Colleagues, I congratulate you all on your appointments as members of the new government. In the year, we have gone through three major electoral processes. After the parliamentary elections, we have the parliament which represents almost the entire spectrum of our country’s political palette and which has already proved to be a strong and active political body. As a result of the presidential elections, we have obtained a new political culture, while during the elections to...
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  04, 2013

  President Serzh Sargsyan’s Address on the Genocide Remembrance Day Dear Compatriots, Today, we bow to the memory of innocent victims. The great majority of these victims didn’t even have graves. One of the native and most ancient peoples of the region had been exterminated on its own land or sent into forced exile. One of the native and most ancient peoples of the region as a result of the first Genocide of the 20th century lost its spiritual and cultural assets accumulated through the millennia, which being national – Armenian, as...
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  04, 2013

  Toast by the President of the Republic of Armenia Mr Serzh Sargsyan at the dinner in honour of the guests participating at the inauguration ceremony Your Holiness, Dear friends, I express my profound gratitude to you for arriving in Yerevan and participating in the ceremony of my inauguration. I perceive a great import in our friends sharing with us today the joy of one of the important events in the twenty-two ears of revived Armenian statehood. One of the better-known adages of civilization stipulates that there exist no permanent enemies or permanent friends, only permanent interests. I fully endorse the first premise:...
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  04, 2013

  Statement by the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan at the Ceremony of Inauguration Your Holiness, Distinguished President Kocharian, Distinguished President of the Republic of Artsakh, Distinguished President Ghoukassian, Dear Citizens of the Republic of Armenia, Dear compatriots, Distinguished guests, friends, I express my thanks to our citizens for their active turnout at the presidential elections. I thank those who once again entrusted me with the task of serving as President of the Republic of Armenia. I also thank those who cast their votes for...