SOCCER CHARITY: ARMENIA PLAYER GIVES PRESENTS TO KARABAKH WAR VETS
15.12.11 | 12:27
Armenian national team midfielder Henrik Mkhitaryan and FFA head
Ruben Hayrapetyan in Artsakh
Armenian national team midfielder Henrik Mkhitaryan has donated TVs,
washing machines and refrigerators to 15 families of war veterans
in Karabakh as part of his second charity visit to the republic
on Wednesday.
Accompanied by Armenian Football Federation (FFA) head
Ruben Hayrapetyan, Ukrainian Shakhtar Donetsk’s 22-year-old
midfielder attended the fifth conference of the Union of Artsakh
Warriors-Liberators held in the Karabakh capital of Stepanakert.
This is the second charity visit by Armenia’s up-and-coming player
to Karabakh. He paid his first at the end of last year.
In Stepanakert, Major-General Samvel Karapetyan awarded Mkhitaryan
with the NKR Prime Minister’s medal, and FFA president Hayrapetyan with
the NKR “Defender of the Homeland” medal, the FFA’s press service said.
Mkhitaryan is expected to visit Gavar on December 16.
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