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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

PM: Armenia residents’ participation in upcoming holidays, remembrance days will be restricted

News.am, Armenia
14:50, 11.04.2020
                 

YEREVAN. – We have holy holidays and remembrance days for us in the near future. April 24 is coming soon, and we also have two holidays in the first ten days of May: the day of the liberation of Shushi, and the day of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this on his live Facebook broadcast Saturday, adding that their conclusion, however, is that these events should be limited in the country.

“Citizens’ participation in any event should be restricted because if we allow these events with the usual procedure, we will have an uncontrollable outbreak of the [coronavirus] epidemic [in Armenia],” Pashinyan explained. “Only ceremonial events will take place on April 24; that is, the officials who have a ritual to do so will do so. The same goes for May 8 and 9, too. Naturally, there will be no mass events on May 1, too. “

Also, the PM asked people to treat these decisions with understanding.

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