YEREVAN. – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, accompanied by a delegation of senior officials, visited the capital city Yerevan’s Komitas Pantheon, in connection with the birth anniversary of Armenia’s former PM and the ruling Republican Party’s former Chairman, the late Andranik Margaryan. 

The state officials paid their respects to Margaryan and placed wreaths to his tomb. 

“Andranik Margaryan was a skilled politician who passed along a long road of ordeals, difficulties and triumphs. He was an accomplished national statesman who had fully devoted himself to the formation of our statehood. He was a man of idea and he proved this with his life story,” Premier Tigran Sargsyan told news reporters during a briefing.