Defense Ministry celebrates Women’s Day (photos)
tert.am
19:15 • 07.03.12
Ahead of Women’s International Day, the Defense Ministry hosted
ceremony to honor women’s role in the military.
Congratulating the servicewomen and female freedom fighters attending
the event, Minister Seyran Ohanyan highly praised their role in the
Nagorno-Karabakh liberation war and the present-day Armed Forces.
Under the minister’s decree, several servicewomen and female civil
servants, as well as the mothers of three soldiers were honored with a
memory medal dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the national Armed
Forces. The mother of Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenia’s former prime minister
and a Karabakh war hero gunned down during a terrorist attack at the
National Assembly in 1999, was honored with a the Coat of Arms
departmental medal.
From: A. Papazian
tert.am
19:15 • 07.03.12
Ahead of Women’s International Day, the Defense Ministry hosted
ceremony to honor women’s role in the military.
Congratulating the servicewomen and female freedom fighters attending
the event, Minister Seyran Ohanyan highly praised their role in the
Nagorno-Karabakh liberation war and the present-day Armed Forces.
Under the minister’s decree, several servicewomen and female civil
servants, as well as the mothers of three soldiers were honored with a
memory medal dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the national Armed
Forces. The mother of Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenia’s former prime minister
and a Karabakh war hero gunned down during a terrorist attack at the
National Assembly in 1999, was honored with a the Coat of Arms
departmental medal.
From: A. Papazian