CIS Inter-parliamentary Assembly members pay floral tribute to world war ii victims in Victory Park in Yerevan
24.03.2015,
16:04
Members of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States laid today a wreath and flowers to the eternal flame in Yerevan's Victory Park, which symbolizes eternal memory of those fighters who had fallen in Great Patriotic War (World War II).
YEREVAN, March 24. /ARKA/. Members of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States laid today a wreath and flowers to the eternal flame in Yerevan's Victory Park, which symbolizes eternal memory of those fighters who had fallen in Great Patriotic War (World War II).
Representatives of Russia's delegation lit a torch from the eternal flame to take it to Russia for gathering particles brought from the Assembly member countries' eternal flames into one flame on April 16 in Russia's Saint Petersburg, where the CIS Inter-parliamentary Assembly is located.
Hermine Naghdalyan, deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying that this is another reason to remember World War II veterans.
«They liberated all the nations of Europe from brown shirts,» she said adding that their heroic deed will never be forgotten.
She said hundreds of thousands of Armenians fought in Great Patriotic War. Many were awarded the honorable title of hero, and there were many generals and several marshals among them.
Naghdalyan expressed gratitude to the veterans who attended the ceremony and wished them sound health. Russian Ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volinkin, lawmakers from Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Armenian army officers attended the event as well.
This commemoration campaign started in Minsk, capital of Belarus, and similar rituals have already carried out in Baku and Kishinev. On March 27 the same will be done in Bishkek.
More than 500,000 Armenians fought in that war and 200,000 of them were killed in battles, 106 became Heroes of the Soviet Union, and legendary pilot Nelson Stepanyan, and Soviet Union Marshal Ivan Bagramyan have earned this honorable title twice. ---0----
