27.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Today the unveiling of a bas-relief with image of Vazgen Sarkisian, killed on October 27, 1999 in the parliament of Armenia, took place in Stepanakert, the capital of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.
As the correspondent of Mediamax reports from Stepanakert, the bas-relief is set up on a building in former central Yerevanian Avenue, which is now named after Vazgen Sarkisian by the order of RNK President.
Boris Arushanian, acting mayor of Stepanakert, was entrusted to unveil the bas-relief. Members of the National Assembly and the government of RNK, representatives of the municipality and the public of Stepanakert were present at the ceremony.
The author of the bas-relief is the famous Yerevan sculptor Levon Tokmajian, who has also designed the monument to Vazgen Sarkisian, opened on September 2, 2000 in Shushi during the festivities of the 9th anniversary of RNK’s declaration of independence. -0-
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