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PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE TOMB OF ANDRANIK MARGARYAN
ARMENPRESS
12 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 12, ARMENPRESS: On the occasion of the birthday of
former Prime Minister of Armenia, former RPA leader Andranik Margaryan,
Armenia's top leadership, headed by President Serzh Sargsyan, visited
Komitas Pantheon. As Armenpress reports, they paid tribute to the
memory of the prominent national and state figure, put a wreath and
flowers at his tomb.
"Andranik Margaryan has been a skilled political figure, who has
passed a large path through ordeals, difficulties and victories,"
said Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. He noted that the ordeals taught
the official to find verges of cooperation with different kinds of
people, to play his role in strengthening of the statehood. Andranik
Margaryan was a man of idea and proved it with his biography.
"He was fully devoted to formation of our statehood. Our common
commandment is to find ways of strengthening our state through
cooperation," stressed Tigran Sargsyan.
Margaryan lived, created and passed away with the belief that any
profit is inferior to the profits of the nation and state. Friends
called him "a true Armenian". Chroniclers state that he was the
longest served PM.
Andranik Margaryan first became engaged in Armenian politics in the
late 1970s when he joined an illegal political party, the National
Unity Party, that was campaigning for Armenia's secession from the
Soviet Union.
In 1992, after Armenia's independence, Margaryan became a registered
member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), the first registered
party in the 3rd Republic of Armenia. He influenced the party platform
with the ideology he expressed as a member of the National United
Party. He served as the Republican Party's Chairman of the Board from
1993 until his death. He had also been a member of the "Yerkrapah"
Volunteer union since 1996 and served on the YVU's board.
In 2000, he was appointed Prime Minister of Armenia after the 1999
Armenian parliament shooting led to the murder of then prime minister
Vazgen Sargsyan. Vazgen's brother, Aram Sargsyan, who the President
appointed a week later as prime minister, was fired on May 2, 2000
leading to Andranik Markaryan being appointed as the 14th prime
minister of Armenia. He had planned to resign after the May 12,
2007 elections in Armenia.
Throughout his career, he was awarded the "Garegin Nzhdeh" medal
by the Armenian Defense Ministry alongside the "Aram Manukian,"
"Fridjof Nansen" and "Vazgen Sargsyan" medals.
ARMENPRESS
12 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 12, ARMENPRESS: On the occasion of the birthday of
former Prime Minister of Armenia, former RPA leader Andranik Margaryan,
Armenia's top leadership, headed by President Serzh Sargsyan, visited
Komitas Pantheon. As Armenpress reports, they paid tribute to the
memory of the prominent national and state figure, put a wreath and
flowers at his tomb.
"Andranik Margaryan has been a skilled political figure, who has
passed a large path through ordeals, difficulties and victories,"
said Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. He noted that the ordeals taught
the official to find verges of cooperation with different kinds of
people, to play his role in strengthening of the statehood. Andranik
Margaryan was a man of idea and proved it with his biography.
"He was fully devoted to formation of our statehood. Our common
commandment is to find ways of strengthening our state through
cooperation," stressed Tigran Sargsyan.
Margaryan lived, created and passed away with the belief that any
profit is inferior to the profits of the nation and state. Friends
called him "a true Armenian". Chroniclers state that he was the
longest served PM.
Andranik Margaryan first became engaged in Armenian politics in the
late 1970s when he joined an illegal political party, the National
Unity Party, that was campaigning for Armenia's secession from the
Soviet Union.
In 1992, after Armenia's independence, Margaryan became a registered
member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), the first registered
party in the 3rd Republic of Armenia. He influenced the party platform
with the ideology he expressed as a member of the National United
Party. He served as the Republican Party's Chairman of the Board from
1993 until his death. He had also been a member of the "Yerkrapah"
Volunteer union since 1996 and served on the YVU's board.
In 2000, he was appointed Prime Minister of Armenia after the 1999
Armenian parliament shooting led to the murder of then prime minister
Vazgen Sargsyan. Vazgen's brother, Aram Sargsyan, who the President
appointed a week later as prime minister, was fired on May 2, 2000
leading to Andranik Markaryan being appointed as the 14th prime
minister of Armenia. He had planned to resign after the May 12,
2007 elections in Armenia.
Throughout his career, he was awarded the "Garegin Nzhdeh" medal
by the Armenian Defense Ministry alongside the "Aram Manukian,"
"Fridjof Nansen" and "Vazgen Sargsyan" medals.