News - Armenia premier speaks with war veterans at Victory Park in Yerevan (PHOTOS)

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, accompanied by National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan as well as members of the legislative and executive bodies, on Thursday visited the Victory Park in Yerevan on the occasion of Victory and Peace Day. Also, Pashinyan approached the war veterans who come to the park, and congratulated them on their holiday and wished them good health. Separately, the top leadership of Armenia laid flowers at the monument of the Unknown Soldier and paid tribute to the martyrs who gave their lives in the fight against fascism, as well as for the statehood, independence, and sovereignty of Armenia. May 9 had been a triple celebration day for Armenians for years: the victory of the Soviet people in the Second World War, as well as the day of the creation of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Defense Army and the day of the liberation of Artsakh’s Shushi city in 1992. But Armenians have lost Shushi as a result of the painful defeat in the 44-day Artsakh war in the fall of 2020.