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The congratulatory message reads:

“Dear Mr Balayan, I congratulate you on your birth jubilee. Your life and literary-public activity are considered to be a peculiar creative work, where the time and the events, the history and the reality are closely interlinked. For more than half a century several generations have traveled in the territory of your created journalistic and publicist real stories, from Kamchatka and Baikal to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, making communications with the Armenians spread all over the world by your unique notes created on board of “Cilicia” and “Armenia” ships.

Your biography is inseparably connected with the origins of the Artsakh liberation movement and the process of the Nagorno Karabakh people's self-determination, its internalization and truthful perception. That link continuously extends up to nowadays through your tireless activity of an Armenian, journalist, writer, and citizen devoted to the highest idea of independence and statehood.

On the occasion of your birthday I wish you health, creative and public fruitful activity and all the best together with warm congratulations.”