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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...
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  03, 2013

  Presidential Address to the “Armenian Genocide: Challenges on the eve of the Centenary” scientific conference   President Serzh Sargsyan addressed today the “Armenian Genocide: Challenges on the eve of the Centenary” scientific conference organized by the State Commission for Coordination of the Events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. “Distinguished Participants of the Conference, On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide it has become an imperative to review our further steps, in particular, to develop the itinerary of...
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  03, 2013

  President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory message to the 11th Convention of the Cinematographic Union of Armenia   Dear Participants and Guests of the 11th Convention of the Cinematographic Union of Armenia, The Armenian cinema with its best creations has for decades been an important means for our self-discovery and communication with our national and moral values. The Armenian audience, which has re-established its statehood twenty years ago, has new expectations from our cinema art which increase the movie professionals’ as well as the state’s responsibility for the...
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  01, 2013

  Congratulatory Message by President Serzh Sargsyan on the occasion of Army Day   Dear Compatriots, I cordially congratulate you on the occasion of Army Day. The nonexistence of the armed forces had never had such tragic and grim repercussions for any nation as it had for us. Probably that’s the reason that from day one of its creation our Army has been enjoying a special attitude of our people; from day of its creation, it’s been a national army. It would be appropriate to recall that we – as a nation and a society, were not...
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  01, 2013

  Welcoming remarks by the President of Armenia, Chairman of the Armenian Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan at the FIDE Presidential Council   Distinguished Mr. Ilyumzhinov, Distinguished members of the Presidential Council of FIDE, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am truly happy to welcome you in one of Armenia’s best tourist centers – Tsakhkadzor. On behalf of our people, I am very pleased to say welcome to Armenia to you all. I carry out this pleasant duty with a double responsibility – as the President of Armenia and as the Chairman of Armenia’s Chess Federation. For years, Armenia has been...