YEREVAN.- Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan along with President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan, members of the National Security Council, as well as the leadership of the Defense Ministry and the Armed Forces on January 28 visited the Yerablur Military Pantheon on the Army Day to pay tribute to the memory of Armenian heroes who gave their lives for the independence of Homeland.

Before that President Sargsyan awarded the high state awards, posthumously awarded to soldiers, to their family members. The awarding ceremony was attended also by the cadets attached to these families, the cadets of the Defense Ministry’s Military Institute after Vazgen Sargsyan, Military-Aviation Institute after Armenak Khanperyants and students of the Monte Melkonyan Military-Training College.