YEREVAN. – Centuries-old history of the Armenian nation proves that it can struggle and will continue doing so, head of History Institute at the National Academy of Sciences Ashot Melkonyan said at the ninth Congress of Yerkrapah (War Veterans’’) Volunteer Union (YVU) on Saturday. 

“We sometimes review the events which happened 20 years ago as local events separate from our 5000-year-old history. A historical event occurred, stressing once again the role of our history in the world. At the beginning of 1990s Armenians were faced with a problem; who going to fight to protect the homeland. But the nation won and we achieved independence and established a unique army.

I desire that Volunteer Union will turn one day into protectors of historical homeland,” Melkonyan concluded.