YEREVAN, JUNE 13, NOYAN TAPAN. On June 12, on the birthday of Andranik Margarian, the RA ex-Prime Minister, the NA Speaker Tigran Torosian, the Prime Minister Serge Sargsian, the members of the government, as well as the relatives of Andranik Margarian visited the pantheon of the Yerevan Komitas Garden. Then they took part in the launching of the book "The Devoted" organized in the Chamber Music Hall. A. Margarain's life and activities, the memoirs of his relatives, friends, colleagues, intellectuals, as well as those of ordinary citizens that present A. Margarian as a person, politician and statesman, are included in the book. In Tigran Torosian's opinion, the life and activities of Andranik Margarian still need to be analysed as he was a unique high-ranking official, the image of whom will become brighter and brighter in the course of time. "We are the contemporaries of this national hero, this great statesman who managed to lead our government and achieve great progress during a difficult period for our country," T. Torosian mentioned. "The whole conscious life of A. Margarian was dedicated to the idea of creating powerful statehood. We, his friends, party members and co-thinkers, will build the very temple of the statehood of which the active participant was Andranik Margarian," Razmik Zohrabian said, member of the RPA Board. Armen Khandikian, a people's artist of RA and the Art Director of the Yerevan State Drama Theatre, confessed that he considered that A. Margarian was a prime minister who was obliged to occupy himself with the problems of the theatre. "Only now have I come to understand that we have lost a great personality and Sevak's words, that the real thickness of the tree is seen only after cutting it, are not written in vain," he said. Armen Khandikian declared that the books of Vladimir Msrian and Artur Utmazian, "The 40-year-old history of the Theatre of Drama", as well as the books dedicated to his activities, will be published by the end of this year due to financial assistance given by the late prime minister.

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