ArmInfo. There is no need for a separate law on determining the day of Yerevan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this at a government meeting on September 20, referring to the initiative of Naira Zohrabyan, the deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, who proposed to amend the law "On Holidays and Memorable Dates".
According to the Minister of Territorial Administration and Development of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan, the MP proposes to proclaim the second Saturday of October as the Day of Yerevan. However, as the minister noted, on the same day, according to the law, the Day of Targmanchas is celebrated in the country - a professional holiday of translators and the day of the Armenian alphabet. In this regard, Suren Papikyan proposed to celebrate the Day of Yerevan on the second Sunday of October.
However, according to Nikol Pashinyan, according to tradition, people will still celebrate the Erebuni- Yerevan holiday on the second Saturday of October. "We can postpone the celebration on January 1, but it will not change anything." If we accept the law, then let it be the day people are used to. "I do not consider it a good idea to establish this holiday by law," said Nikol Pashinyan, that the government should not express its position on this issue at all. "For 50 years people celebrated this holiday, and no one thought about the absence of a law, the need for which is not necessary," the head of government said. To note, this year the capital of Armenia will celebrate the 2800th anniversary. Erebuni (Yerevan) was founded in 782 AD in the southeast of the Armenian highlands by the king Argishti the First. The cornerstone on which the year of foundation of Yerevan is carved is kept in the Erebuni Museum. Yerevan Day is celebrated annually in mid-October, beginning in 1968.