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On December 28, on the occasion of the New Year and Holy Nativity the President of the RA National Assembly Galust Sahakyan invited the heads and the journalists of the mass media to a festive reception. Addressing the attendees the NA President said:

“Dear representatives of the mass media, I congratulate you on the occasion of your New Year and Holy Nativity.

One more year of joint work ends, which supposes consolidation of everybody’s efforts for the benefit of our country.

Taking the advantage, I would like to thank you for your patient activity and effective work. In fact, that work is not only effective, but mutually useful. I am thankful for both acclaim and criticism.

Every kind of criticism often contains in itself proposal, and we are open for any constructive and reasonable proposal, which will promote for the activities of the National Assembly and the improvement of our cooperation.

Dear journalists, the parliament is the place, where not only the politicians get experience, but also the journalists accredited here. And the presence of the journalist deputies involved in different factions of the National Assembly means that to become a deputy from a journalist is not so impossible. Some of you, in terms of working activities, are long-time workers in the parliament, sometimes with big experience of parliamentary work. This is one of the achievements of our statehood and reliable guarantees of the establishment of the civil society, one more proof of the journalist’s work and the importance of the profession. As a person directly contacting with the society it is very important that the journalist will be deprived of self-indulgence, that saying journalist will not be understood simply skillfully being good handling the recorder and a person typewriting recording, that maximum balanced and sombre attitude will be shown towards the formation of the public opinion, that giving information the objectivity will not be sacrificed to operability, and urgent information will not be sacrificed to haste, because wrong or objective information sometimes can resemble a medical mistake having grave consequences.

Dear journalists, I am convinced that in all of you, irrespective of their political preference, the prevailing thing is the feeling of the statehood which is expressed in different ways, but with one purposefulness with the perspective of stronger, more welfare and more righteous Armenia. Let the pulse of our country in the coming year will always adequately beat and show irregularity only due to achievements and successes that you will again be the first recorders of them.

Let the year 2016 be a year of peace, happiness and welfare for you, your families, close relatives, and during your activities record stable progress and continuous successes.

Happy New Year and Holy Nativity!”

By the order of the RA NA Speaker Galust Sahakyan, for great contribution to the freedom of information and speech the journalist of the First Information Service of the Public TV Company Siranuish Muradyan and the Press Secretary of the NKR National Assembly President Anush Ghavalyan were awarded the RA National Assembly Diploma, the Director of the Information and Analytical Centre State Non-Commercial Organization (SNCO) of the RA Government Staff Tigran Abrahamyan, the Director of Armenpress Information Agency of the RA Government Staff Aram Ananyan, the NKR Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Artak Beglaryan were awarded the RA National Assembly President’s Memorial Medal, the journalist of the information website Orer.am Sose Chandoyan, the Adviser to the Director of the Public Relations and Information Centre SNCO of the RA President’s Staff Mariam Hakhnazaryan, the cameraman of Ararat TV Company Artur Hunanyan, the Head of the Public Relations Division of the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Anush Danielyan, the journalist of the Information Website Panorama.am Hasmik Hambardzumyan, the journalist of Armenpress Information Agency Ani Nazaryan, the journalist of Tert.am Information Website Tigranuhi Martirosyan, the journalist of H3 TV Company Naira Poghosyan, the Press Secretary of the RA Minister of Education and Science Zohrap Yeganyan were awarded the RA NA President’s Letters of Appreciation, the Adviser to the Head of the RA Police Narek Malyan and the Director of Information-Political Programmes of Ararat TV Company Mihran Hakobyan were awarded the RA NA President’s souvenirs - nominal watches.