Karabakh president meets Armenian evangelicals in Beirut

On 21 August President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan visited central committee of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East located in the city of Beirut and held meetings with its representatives headed by the central committee's chairman Soghomon Kilaghbyan, according to a release by the presidentional administration.

Bako Sahakyan highly appreciated the role of the church in providing national education and maintaining Armenian national identity in the Diaspora pointing out Haykazyan University, which is one of the leading Armenian higher educational establishments, as the best example of that.

Mr Sahakyan expressed his gratitude to the Armenian Evangelical Church for carrying out different projects in Artsakh expressing hope that the circle of the projects would be enlarged.

On 21-22 August President Sahakyan in the village of Ainjar partook at the opening and closing ceremonies of festivities dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the heroic battle in M?usa Ler and and 70th anniversary of Ainjar. Mr Sahakyan also delivered a speech there.

Mr Sahakyan was accompanied by Adviser to the President of the Artsakh Republic Armen Isagoulov, Minister of Education and Science Vladik Khachatryan, Head of the Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic President David Babayan, Permanent Representative of the Artsakh Republic in Lebanon Karo Kebabjyan.

Minister of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia Hranoush Hakobyan and Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia in Lebanon Ashot Kochartan also took part in the events.