YEREVAN.- Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has been awarded with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) of America. Six US presidents as well as numerous other officials, congressmen, and renowned people have received this award, but Sargsyan is the first foreign president to be recognized for this Medal of Honor.

Muhammad Ali, Tony Blair, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Gerald Ford, Martin Scorsese, Frank Sinatra,  and—Flagship Ventures company’s Managing Partner—the Armenian Noubar Afeyan are among the recipients of this award.