On October 22, President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan received the participants of the 8^th Pan-Armenian Forum of Journalists, which is organized by the RA Ministry of Diaspora and is being held under the title “Armenian Statehood: Axis of Unity”. RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan was also attending the meeting.

Greeting the guests from abroad, Bako Sahakyan stated that the topics of the forum are very important, interesting and pressing and viewed the field of information the field that is of strategic significance for the Armenian state.

“Currently, alongside the conventional issues in the field of information, there are new tasks and actions. All this requires the implementation of an appropriate policy in the field of information and close collaboration between the journalists and media sectors of Armenia, Artsakh and the Armenian Diaspora,” the head of state highlighted, according to Hayern Aysor.

RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan expressed gratitude to President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan for receiving the participants of the forum and added that the visit to Artsakh will convey force and more energy to the Diaspora Armenian journalists who will return to their countries of residence and continue to do everything they can for the benefit of Artsakh, Armenia and the Armenian people.

“Today, we are in a state of war. War has a military, diplomatic, economic and journalistic nature. You are the soldiers who have been “enlisted” to the real and virtual spheres and are fighting in that area and beyond these borders. Whereas the people of Artsakh are standing here to defend the country, you are fighting “within your boundaries” so that we see a fair resolution of the Artsakh issue. You are fighting for the independence and self-determination of our nation and trying to present the Armenian Cause and the Armenian reality to the public and political authorities of your respective countries.

We are very well aware of the fact that without Artsakh, there will be no Armenia or the Armenian people. Therefore, the words “Armenia, Artsakh, Diaspora” need to be and are in the hearts and souls of each and every one of us. Artsakh is our pride and our conscience. The Diaspora is our honor. Armenia is our hope,” Hranush Hakobyan stated as she addressed the participants of the pan-Armenian forum.

At the end of the meeting, President Bako Sahakyan answered various questions from the journalists that were related to the field of information, the settlement of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict, as well as the domestic and foreign policy of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.