YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian has formalized a recommendation by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to award a group of foreign ministry staffers for “many years of effective and duly activities”.

Armenia’s Consul General in Aleppo Armen Sargsyan was awarded the Mkhitar Gosh medal, Head of the Financial-Budgetary Department of the Foreign Ministry Armenuhi Galstyan was awarded with the Medal of Gratitude and FM Zohrab Mnatsakanyan’s Advisor Ruben Shakaryan was also awarded the Medal of Gratitude.

In a separate decree, Rector of the Armenian State Academy of Fine Arts Aram Isabekyan was awarded the Honorary Title of People’s Painter of Armenia on the occasion of the Independence Day for “great contribution in the development of visual arts”.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan