YEREVAN, JULY 25, ARMENPRESS. With the national anthem of the Republic of Artsakh, a popular rally was launched on July 25 in Stepanakert Renaissance Square and parallel in Yerevan's Freedom Squares with the demand to lift the blockade of Artsakh and respect the right of its people to self-determination.

The correspondent of ARMENPRESS reports, Bishop Ter Vrtanes Abrahamyan, Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church addressed the participants of the rally from Yerevan's Freedom Square. "Today's reality comes to remind us once again that the Artsakh movement is not over and is still going on. It should become for us like daily bread, it should become a way of life, a mission, an idea and a struggle. During the Artsakh movement, thousands of Armenians became heroes and immortalized. We must make no mistakes under their spiritual look, but by becoming a united fist with the whole nation, we should bring that movement to its good end, a free, independent Artsakh," said the Bishop, conveying to the people of Artsakh the fatherly love and prayers of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians.

Then the video message of Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I was presented.

Artsakh Republic President Arayik Harutyunyan, National Assembly Speaker Artur Tovmasyan, State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan, and other officials are also participating in the rally in Stepanakert's Renaissance Square.