Embassy of Armenia Celebrates Armenian Army’s 15th Anniversary

PRESS RELEASE February 1, 2007
Embassy of the Republic of Armenia
2225 R Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20008
Tel: 202-319-1976, x. 348; Fax: 202-319-2982
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On January 31, the Armenian Army Day was celebrated in Washington, D.C.
during a reception at the Embassy of Armenia. This year marked a jubilee,
the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Army.

At the Embassy celebration, Ambassador Tatoul Markarian and Defense Attaché
Col. Armen Sargsyan welcomed high-ranking officials from the Administration,
State Department, Department of Defense and branch services, including
Caucasus Director at the National Security Council, Matthew Palmer, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza, and Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense James MacDougal. Also attending were U.S. military officers,
foreign Ambassadors, diplomats, and military attachés accredited in
Washington, as well as representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
Armenian-American organizations and the Armenian community.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

www.armeniaemb.org

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS