STEPANAKERT. – The President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh), Bako Sahakyan, on Saturday met with the Artsakh participants who won prizes and received certificates in the Armenia final phase of the 2015-2016 school-year subject Olympiad among schoolchildren, and their teachers.  

Central Information Department of the Office of the NKR President informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that the President handed valuable gifts to these schoolchildren and monetary awards to their teachers.

In his remarks, Sahakyan noted that the development of the education sphere corresponding with modern standards and the resolution of existing challenges has always been and will remain at the focus of Artsakh’s authorities. He added that an educated and patriotic generation is a guarantee of the reliable future of the country.