Yerkrapah Volunteer Union administration and verification committee members were elected during the 8th union congress Tuesday, February 16.
Lieutenant General Manvel Grigoryan was re-elected as Yerkrapah Volunteer Union chairman.
At the congress, statements were made by Yerkrapah Volunteer Union chairman, Manvel Grigoryan; RA Minister of Defence, Seyran Ohanyan; Commander of the NKR Defense Army, Movses Hakobyan; Yerkrapah Union member, Republic party leader, Aram Sargsyan; Peoples’ Artist of Armenia, Yervand Manaryan; former RA Deputy Minister of Defence, Artur Aghabekyan.
“Yerkrapah Volunteer Union will always be the defender of peace and safety in Artsakh. The organization is opposed to linking Armenia-Turkish rapprochement to Karabakh conflict settlement issue.
Though supporting normalization of ties with Turkey, Yerkrapah Union is opposed to betraying the memory of Armenian Genocide victims for the benefit of reconciliation.
The Union urges Armenian nation for unity, in the hopes that tragedies like October 27 and March 1 will never be repeated,” the statement issued at the conference said.
