YEREVAN. - We put our sweat and blood to build and protect the free and independent Armenia, which is not only the homeland of 3 million Armenia Armenians’ but also is the motherland of millions of Armenians around the world, said Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan at Armenia’s 20th anniversary of independence in Sardarapat.

“We leave to our future generations strong bases of state and pillars of democracy. We will leave security walls: Armenian Army and civil society viable plants. We will also leave state – the roof,” he said. “On this significant day of the Armenian history, I want to highlight the establishment of the rule of law. Dozens and hundreds of years, our community lived by the rules of others. Centuries when law was for strangers. When the law was strange for us. And when the law was the stranger.”

“Now, when our state is in the spring of its life, I want to record an unprecedented achievement. That achievement is the citizens of Armenia.

The Armenians who not only enjoys living by their country’s law, but are the creators of that law,” stressed Sargsyan.