The mayor of Ejmiatsin, Armenia, Diana Gasparyan has responded to a press report that the Municipality of Ejmiatsin will purchase gold rings with diamond stones.

"The Municipality of Ejmiatsin will not buy, but has already bought, gold rings with diamond stones which it presented as a gift to the Ejmiatsin-resident newlyweds on February 13 of this year, within the framework of the feast devoted to Candlemass day," Gasparyan wrote, in particular, on Facebook. “The couples who received the rings will confirm that they are not luxurious and expensive; they rather have a symbolic meaning and are a little attention from the municipality.

We have worked and are working openly and transparently, have served and are serving the well-being of our beloved city."