Karabakh hosts play on 'The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'

President of the Artsakh (Karabakh) Republic Bako Sahakyan received a group of cultural workers and actors from Armenia and US on Saturday.

According to a press release by the Karabakhi presidential administration, the actors who will organize a literal-musical performance on the motives of Franz Werfel’s “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” novel in the capital city of Stepanakert.

Bako Sahakyan noted the importance of combining the efforts of Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora for mass coverage of the pan-national events, “which is among the pivotal directions of patriotic education of the younger generation, as well as introducing the history of the Armenian people to the international community”.

It was mutually underlined that such events should be organized periodically in different hearths of Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora.

Karabakhi Minister of Culture and Youth Affairs Narine Aghabalyan and the head of the NKR Writers' Union Vardan Hakobyan also attended the meeting.