Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday issued a congratulatory message to the Yazidi community of Armenia on the occasion of the Yazidi New Year, Melek Taus. The message reads as follows, in particular:

"I wish the New Year for the Yazidis of our country to be a year of success, happiness and abundance, and that our Yazidi compatriots preserve and develop their national language and cultural traditions.

We have common pain and happiness. Today we share your happiness, and be sure that we are ready to share your troubles as brothers, that your community's issues are in our focus.

Melek Taus brings with it a new hope and dream, so I wish our region to be peaceful, secure in the new year and that the severe trials remain in the past."