A Military Parade Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of Armenia’s Independence

21 September, 2011 00:00

Today a military parade has been held at the Republic Square dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of Armenia’s Independence.

There have been units from Army Corps, Military Police, Peacekeeping Brigade, Special Brigade of Special Forces, NKR Defense Army, Police Forces, Frontier Troops of National Security Service, and the Russian 102nd Military Base. Students of Military Institute After V. Sargsyan, Air Force Institute after Armenak Khanferiants and pupils of military college after Monte Melkonyan have also took part in the parade. For the first time squads composed of Karabagh War veterans and clergymen took part in a parade. During the parade subdivisions of Intelligence Forces, Motorized Infantry, Panzer, Rocket and Artillery troops and Air Defense Forces marched on the Republic Square. Among the military equipment shown during the parade there were also products from local military industry such as unmanned flying devices. There were also Zenith-Rocket complexes, Artillery Intelligence, and Automated Fire Control Systems which had been modernized in local military industrial companies. The parade was commanded by Chief of General Staff of the ARM Armed Forces, Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov. The parade was received by the ARM Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan. ARM President Serzh Sargsyan came up with a congratulatory speech on the 20th Anniversary of the independence.