December 7, 2006 - 15:49 AMT
18th Anniversary of Spitak Earthquake Marked in Karabakh
The 18th anniversary of devastating Spitak earthquake was marked in Nagorno Karabakh December 7. In the morning people attended the memorial complex in the NKR capital city to lay wreaths to the monument to the victims. President Arkady Ghukasian, National Assembly chairman Ashot Ghulian, Prime Minister Anushavan Daniyelian, parliament members, commanders of the NKR Defense Army also commemorated of those killed in the earthquake. The acolytes of the Artsakh Hierarchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church chanted a service in memory of the victims, reports IA Regnum.