HEAD OF RPA FACTION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IS AGAINST RETURN OF MUSIC OF
ARMENIAN ANTHEM OF SOVIET PERIOD
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Galust Sahakian, the head of the RPA
faction of the RA National Assembly estimates positive the
government's decision concerning prolonging for one year the activity
of the "Mets Hayrenik" (Great Fatherland) state anthem. The deputy
also foresaw at the October 27 briefing that "the problem will not be
solved during the coming one year, and it must be prolonged till it
becomes a public demand or a new anthem is born."
G.Sahakian spoke against return of the music of the Armenian anthem of
the Soviet period. "I'm not against Aram Khachatrian's music, but it
served a system which is inadmissible today."
ARMENIAN ANTHEM OF SOVIET PERIOD
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Galust Sahakian, the head of the RPA
faction of the RA National Assembly estimates positive the
government's decision concerning prolonging for one year the activity
of the "Mets Hayrenik" (Great Fatherland) state anthem. The deputy
also foresaw at the October 27 briefing that "the problem will not be
solved during the coming one year, and it must be prolonged till it
becomes a public demand or a new anthem is born."
G.Sahakian spoke against return of the music of the Armenian anthem of
the Soviet period. "I'm not against Aram Khachatrian's music, but it
served a system which is inadmissible today."