YEREVAN. – Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan on Thursday is attending, in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), or Artsakh, the festivities devoted to the 68th anniversary of the victory achieved in World War II, and the 21st anniversaries of the NKR Defense Army and the liberation of Shushi.

Sargsyan, who is in NKR on a working visit, paid a visit to the NKR capital city Stepanakert Memorial, paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the Great Patriotic War, and visited the tombs of the Armenians that fell during the Karabakh War, the President’s Press Office informs.  

The President also visited the NKR City of Shushi, where placed a wreath and flowers to the Tank-Memorial and the monument of Armenia’s late PM, Supreme Commander Vazgen Sargsyan.   

Serzh Sargsyan also attended the official opening of the Museum of Fine Arts of Shushi.