YEREVAN. - The teachers of the heroes, who took part in the four-day April war in Karabakh, were awarded at Yerevan’s Hakob Paronyan State Musical Comedy Theater on Friday.

The event was attended by Education Minister Levon Mkrtchyan and Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan. In their speech, the ministers attached special importance to link between students, teachers and army.

For her part, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Hermine Naghdalyan, recalled the heroes who fell in the April war, underscoring the importance of the teachers’ contribution to patriotic breeding and education.