NKR President Bako Sahakyan addressed nation on the occasion of the International Workers’ Day.

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“Dear compatriots, I congratulate you on the International Workers' Day.

This very holiday was traditionally celebrated with luxury in our country. Our nation has always been creative and has earned its living through daily painstaking work.

Today building independent statehood, we keep on taking necessary steps to develop the economy, stimulate domestic production and create favorable conditions for business. Protecting rights and interests of workers, raising wages and benefits, creating new workplaces, improving living conditions of people are the pivotal issues that are always in the limelight of the authorities.

Dear friends, I congratulate you once again on the May Day and wish peace, welfare and great success to your families and our common home Artsakh.”