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KOCHARIAN COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE
Armenpress
Dec 07 2006
GYUMRI, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: President Robert Kocharian and senior
government officials traveled today to Armenia's second largest town of
Gyumri to commemorate the victims of a disastrous earthquake that hit
and destroyed the country's northern provinces 18 years ago killing
25,000 people.
Kocharian laid a wreath at a monument to the earthquake victims
erected in front of a church in downtown Gyumri. Head of the local
Diocese of the Armenian Church, served a liturgy in memory of the
killed. Kocharian also spoke to local residents who were gathered
near the monument.
Powerful underground tremors wiped out the towns of Spitak, Leninakan
(now Gyumri), Stepanavan, Kirovakan (Vanadzor) and dozens of villages
and settlements from the face of the earth on December 7 eighteen
years ago.
Armenpress
Dec 07 2006
GYUMRI, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: President Robert Kocharian and senior
government officials traveled today to Armenia's second largest town of
Gyumri to commemorate the victims of a disastrous earthquake that hit
and destroyed the country's northern provinces 18 years ago killing
25,000 people.
Kocharian laid a wreath at a monument to the earthquake victims
erected in front of a church in downtown Gyumri. Head of the local
Diocese of the Armenian Church, served a liturgy in memory of the
killed. Kocharian also spoke to local residents who were gathered
near the monument.
Powerful underground tremors wiped out the towns of Spitak, Leninakan
(now Gyumri), Stepanavan, Kirovakan (Vanadzor) and dozens of villages
and settlements from the face of the earth on December 7 eighteen
years ago.