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Published on March 25, 2008
LATE ANDRANIK MARGARYAN COMMEMORATED IN YEREVAN
- The Armenian leadership honored the memory of former Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan who died of a cardiac arrest a year ago. The Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and NA Speaker Tigran Torosian laid wreaths to Andranik Margaryan's grave in the Pantheon. "Andranik Margaryan was a good friend and reliable politician," said Tigran Sargsyan, chairman of the Armenian Central Bank. "It's hard to think that he is not with us any more. The year passed so quickly and the wound is still too fresh," he said, Novosti Armenia reports. Andranik Margaryan, chairman of the Republic Party of Armenia, served as Armenia's Prime Minister in 2000-2007. He died at age of 56 on March 25, 2007.
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