YEREVAN. – Congress of Yerkrapah (War Veterans’’) Volunteer Union (YVU) commenced Saturday in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. President Serzh Sargsyan is among the attendees, which total approximately two-thousand.

Among the congress participants are Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, former minister Mikayel Harutyunyan, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan, and other senior officials.      

And among those who are not in attendance to YVU congress are PM Tigran Sargsyan, former National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan, and Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Colonel General Yury Khachaturov.