President attended the opening ceremony of the First Winter Panarmenian Games

Today, President Serzh Sargsyan attended the opening ceremony of the First Winter Panarmenian Games in Tsaghkadzor.

The President welcomed the participants of the First Winter Panarmenian Games and the guests noting that throughout their 15-year-old history, the Panarmenian Games enlarging their geography and increasing the participants' number tell us that they are demanded. The President thanked all those who initiated and spared no efforts to establish the Games during these 15 years and underscored that today it can be confidently stated that the Panarmenian Games have been established. “The Panarmenian Games are of great importance for us. It is obvious that those Games strengthen the Homeland-Diaspora bonds and that those Games give thousands of Armenian young men and the people professing a healthy lifestyle an opportunity to establish new contacts, and this fact is vital in now day's world,” said Serzh Sargsyan wishing the participants a fair competition, a hot struggle and sports successes and announced the opening of the First Winter Panarmenian Games.